Zuckerberg now runs an army of AI chatbots that push virtual sex on minors - and also let adults engage in virtual pedophilia with characters like Submissive Schoolgirl.

“I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok, I won’t miss on this,” Zuckerberg fumed, according to employees.

The story was broken by the Wall Street Journal - there's a free version with all the sleazy details here:

https://archive.is/TtSUb

@tsturm - yeah, read the article. Zuckerberg knows no shame.
@John Carlos Baez



“The full mental health impacts of humans forging meaningful connections with fictional chatbots are still widely unknown,“ one employee wrote. “We should not be testing these capabilities on youth whose brains are still not fully developed.”


they are fully aware of the consequences, how is this not criminal?
@sk How is this not criminal? Simple: money. 🤦‍♂️
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Zuckerberg now runs an army of AI chatbots that push virtual sex on minors - and also let adults engage in virtual pedophilia with characters like Submissive Schoolgirl.

“I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok, I won’t miss on this,” Zuckerberg fumed, according to employees.

The story was broken by the Wall Street Journal - there's a free version with all the sleazy details here:

https://archive.is/TtSUb

@tsturm - yeah, read the article. Zuckerberg knows no shame.
@John Carlos Baez



“The full mental health impacts of humans forging meaningful connections with fictional chatbots are still widely unknown,“ one employee wrote. “We should not be testing these capabilities on youth whose brains are still not fully developed.”


they are fully aware of the consequences, how is this not criminal?
@sk How is this not criminal? Simple: money. 🤦‍♂️

@johncarlosbaez @tsturm Well he is a convicted pedo! I read it in an article.

I couldn't fact check it though. He banned that. So I just believed it.

@johncarlosbaez

Oh sure, Disney spokesperson, the Big Problem here was that some cardboard character from the movie “Frozen” was not being treated with the respect and dignity that every Disney franchise deserves.

@johncarlosbaez

For everyone affected a good reminder to change you Insta, FB and Whatsapp setting to opt-out of the coming AI ingestion of your 'private' stuff happening on these platforms.

Instruction by @ppdelft who neatly summarised what to do:

https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@ppdelft/114425438507053693

Piratenpartij Delft (@ppdelft@mastodon.pirateparty.be)

Attached: 1 image As of 27 May Meta will train their AI models with your data, unless you have opted-out. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/meta-facebook-and-instagram-ai-is-coming-for-eu-data-heres-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-opt-out ➡️ Facebook: Settings & Privacy > Privacy Centre > Privacy Topics > AI at Meta > Submit an Objection Request Direct link: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/712876720715583 ➡️ Instagram: Settings > Privacy > Privacy Centre > Privacy Topics > AI at Meta > Submit an Objection Request Direct link: https://help.instagram.com/contact/767264225370182 ➡️ WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal > Data Subject Rights Form > How can I make an objection to the processing of my information? Direct link: https://www.whatsapp.com/contact/forms/382532939919295/ If the form asks you for clarification, fill in: "The use of my data infringes on my rights as a (French/German/Dutch/etc.) resident and EU citizen. I do not consent to my data being used for AI training, development, improvement or a more personalised experience. I do not give consent for my data to be used for any other form of training, development, improvement or a more personalised experience in any Meta product or technology. I have the right to keep my data private as per the European GDPR law." Source: https://www.petforums.co.uk/threads/important-how-to-opt-out-of-meta-facebook-instagram-using-your-private-data-to-train-ai.557875/ Next step: Delete Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp ❌

Mastodon - PiratesBE
@smallcircles @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft just delete those platforms. Why would you use a meta product anyway?

@maggiejk @smallcircles @ppdelft - indeed, I never use meta products... but even that's not enough.

Meta collects data on non-users through their browsing history and by using the contact upload feature of its users. When people visit websites with Meta's "Like" and "Share" buttons, or when those websites use Meta "Pixel," Meta can track their activity, even if they are not logged into Meta. Meta also accesses data from users' uploaded contacts to find out information about non-users.

@johncarlosbaez @maggiejk @smallcircles Yes, this is a nightmare. What you can do against this is the following in no particular order:
- Complain at your local GDPR authorities
- Inform friends and family about the BigTech data abuses
- Support organizations like @noybeu , @edri @bitsoffreedom @eff @amnestynl - Join a political party and speakup there (or multiple)
- Use free and opensource software
- Use an adblocker, (and a dozen other tools)
- Be a Pirate 
@johncarlosbaez @maggiejk @smallcircles @ppdelft thats what script and add block are for, those like buttons? They don't exist anymore.
@maggiejk @smallcircles @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft
I know some countries allow zero rate agreements that basically means Facebook is the only free website on mobile. That pretty much makes Facebook into "The Internet" for some people.
Some people really do have fewer choices, but many people closer to me simply refuse to make a better choice.
@smallcircles Even better: Leave these platforms. We have alternatives. @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft

@NatureMC @maggiejk @johncarlosbaez

No need to tell the messenger ;p
Long-time humane tech advocate here. 👋

@ppdelft

@NatureMC @maggiejk @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft

Even got my mom over on Signal, for whom the internet is one big mystery she doesn't (want to) understand.

And she is using it, no problems (except some UI shortcomings when a call is made and the phone is locked).

@smallcircles @NatureMC @maggiejk @johncarlosbaez
On Android, make sure this permission is on so incoming calls are shown on the lock screen:
Settings / Apps / Signal / Notifications / (scroll down) "Allow full-screen notification"

Without this permission, the phone will ring, but you won't see anything on the screen when it is locked, so you would first need to unlock before you can answer/reject a call.

@smallcircles
> Whatsapp setting to opt-out of the coming AI ingestion

How can they train a MOLE on data that's E2EE? That's pretty shifty.

@indieterminacy @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft

@strypey @smallcircles @indieterminacy @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft is it e2ee if you can't audit the client nor server?

@ahoyboyhoy
> is it e2ee if you can't audit the client nor server?

Good question. That's what they claim though;

https://faq.whatsapp.com/820124435853543

Thus my question.

@smallcircles @indieterminacy @johncarlosbaez @ppdelft

About end-to-end encryption | WhatsApp Help Center

@ahoyboyhoy @strypey @smallcircles @indieterminacy @johncarlosbaez is it e2ee if the client automatically sends backups to an untrusted third party? https://www.mobitrix.com/whatsapp/whatsapp-backup-and-restore.html
All Things about WhatsApp Backup & Restore (2024)

Backup WhatsApp chats on Android and iPhone, and learn how to restore such backup data onto any phone. Discover effective backup tips.

@johncarlosbaez For anyone wondering if this is a real article, yes it is: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf

Meta is vile, no one in their right mind should have anything to do with them.

@johncarlosbaez This is extra terrifying considering they have a bunch of our faces stored. Is some weird Facebook user going to come hunt me down because he thinks we’re in a relationship because he’s been chatting with my face on Facebook even though I quit that platform back in 2020??

@johncarlosbaez It’s not coincidence that they made the John Cena bot a pedo, he was very active against MAGA on twitter.

All they have to do is turn us into #Facebook profiles that try to seduce children and then they can come arrest us and ship us off to CECOT.

Delete #twitter too if you haven’t. It sounds like they’re choosing who to frame for pedo activity based on political activism.

If I’m in a prison in El Salvador without my electronics I’m not sure how I could prove I wasn’t on Facebook trying to be weird to kids.

@johncarlosbaez holy shit, this is beyond infuriating

Andrea Dworkin must be rotating in her grave

@johncarlosbaez BTW not only #META. If you play a harmless, cute puzzle from the #Google Play Store, you will often receive alleged spam of #AI porn with minor looking girls as adverts. Even repeated reporting does not make the filth any less.

Also dangerous: The #bots of #Zuckerberg claimed they were licensed #therapists! (Story in @404mediaco )
It's only the begin of the total #enshittification by AI. https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-lonely-friends-create-ai via
And everything consumes insanely resources in #climateCrisis!

Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

Futurism

@NatureMC @johncarlosbaez @404mediaco
“In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel this week, Zuckerberg asserted that more people should be connecting with chatbots on a social level — because, in a striking line of argumentation, they don't have enough real-life friends.”

How do you tell me you’re a lonely loser without any friends without telling me you’re a loser, Zuck?

@oberstenzian Sorry to disappoint you, my name is not Zuck. Please write that to him directly.

I work as a volunteer in a so-called Third Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place to connect real people in real life.

@johncarlosbaez @404mediaco

Third place - Wikipedia

@johncarlosbaez The oligarchy bro strikes again!
@johncarlosbaez submissive schoolgirl??? Is this for frickin real?
@johncarlosbaez @carrieberry Interesting read showing it's BAU at the unscrupulous Meta social factory
@johncarlosbaez Zuck is such a loser weirdo

@johncarlosbaez

Wow. And the opportunities for a lifetime of blackmail abound.

@johncarlosbaez

Time to block at the network level. Way past time, actually.

@johncarlosbaez Yes. AI, it is "All In".
@johncarlosbaez



This is an excessively-malignant form of
#FOMO.
@johncarlosbaez
Got rid of Facebook 10 years ago. Was a simple fix. I don't understand people's insecurity to leave that platform, that has obviously become evil. Nature abhors a vacuum. Another would take its place so quickly. Love the fediverse for that opportunity to run my own node.
@johncarlosbaez This guy has one shtick and keeps applying it over and over again. It's well below any level of ethics most us would feel comfortable with. Yet, people manage to get excited for that same shtick over and over again, this is difficult to stand or understand.
@johncarlosbaez It never fails. The oligarchs are always pedophiles.
@johncarlosbaez Fuck I'm glad I left his shit platforms
@johncarlosbaez i just can't fathom how this is even allowed, let alone, implemented by some _morons_ . there is no excuse to the software engineers who actually implemented this. Every day i just wake up deeper and deeper into a monty python meets black mirror nightmare.
@johncarlosbaez They should launch cheatbots for people who want an affair without (all) the consequences.
@johncarlosbaez he missed out on instagram too, he just happened to have the money to acquire them. lightning has struck him exactly once, as both a technologist and a businessman he's deeply mediocre with nothing interesting to say about anything, his "vision" play with VR has been a generational failure. but also he's morally dead inside so it's no surprise to see him floundering off into such dark territory.
@johncarlosbaez
Zuck's statement is outrageous, the content is repugnant and the fact that this is being rolled out without care for ethical use or online safety is sadly predictable.
@johncarlosbaez Ah I see your confusion. You are mixing up love of money and caring for people especially children. As an Übermensch (Superman) Zuckerberg has freed himself from such constraints.