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2026-07-24 10:26 UTC
It gets worse for social media bosses like Mark Zuckerberg, for whom AI's principal appeal is the prospect of ending socializing on social media, swapping your mulish friends for pliable chatbots who will organize their interactions with you to maximize your platform usage and thus the number of ads you see:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/#sirius-cybernetics
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-24 10:27
I think billionaire solipsism can account for much of the malinvestment in this obvious bubble, but I don't think it's the whole story. Rather, I think there's a whole cohort of investors who don't believe in AI, but believe that *other* people will believe in AI. 14/