> But this is an unquestionably good thing right?

Their efforts in open AI are by far the best thing Facebook/Meta have ever done. They opened the door to the Chinese, who are doing excellent work, and between them they are preventing the concentration of power and the rise of monopoly pricing. This is enough to absolve them of almost any sin. If I were a utilitarian, I'd unironically be a Zuckerberg fan right now.

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lukan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"This is enough to absolve them of almost any sin. If I were a utilitarian, I'd unironically be a Zuckerberg fan right now."

Well, if it were the only thing he is doing now, but FB is still controlling peoples social life with who knows what kind of intentions they train their algorithms for.

But I can and do still welcome this move here.

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basch 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Intention might be giving too much credit. If attention seeking “give the people what they want” is the goal, it’s a completely headless out of control cobra, not sinister well thought out objectives to control society.

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diegolas 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it's not that deep, they wan you scrolling the most time possible. it's absolutely escapable tho, literally not required for any activity whatsoever.

	▲	butlike 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Totally. The hard part is treating it like any other addiction. Time in absentia helps reduce the behavioral reinforcement. I don't even want to open Instagram anymore.
	▲	lukan 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, but if he can buy a bit of political power/more money on the side by promise to influence certain trends, I doubt he would say no on ethical grounds. (Just for the fear of whistleblowers I guess)

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GetMeSoon 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> FB is still controlling peoples social life with who knows what kind of intentions they train their algorithms for.

As opposed to literally any social network out there, right?

	▲	windexh8er an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm curious how well influence campaigns work on platforms like Mastodon, or even BlueSky. They are, likely, not sourced from the platform providers which is definitely not the case for FB.
	▲	lukan 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Well, here on HN the intention seems to be to, to have interesting discussions. That works for me and other social media I do not use. Except well, various messenger to be in contact with the groups and people I choose with no engagement algorithm deciding what posts I see, simple chronological order.
	▲	soraminazuki 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What do you mean, "as opposed to"? Yes, there are other scumbag billionaires weaponizing their social media platforms to ruin society. No, that doesn't make Mark Zuckerberg a better person.

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beagle3 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At the same time they are strongly promoting the OS age laws.

One positive, in the eyes of many people, does not absolve for a large body of evil. For many it doesn’t even absolve a small body of evil deeds. (Zuck/Meta’s evil deeds are numerous and enormous)

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applicative 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The price of Kimi K3 is 'monopolistically' determined by contract with Moonshot. The weights are nominally on Hugging Face but can only be provided under contract with Moonshot, which specifies what the price can be. So it will be with the next Alibaba behemoth and, I would think, all others forever.

Soon you will sing songs for the freedom Xi has given us when you read a declaration of 'open weights' ... for a model so huge it takes a nuclear powered data center to run and crashes the Hugging Face servers when it is uploaded.

The Kimi K3 'weights' are an opaque blob that can only be used by contract.

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dummydummy1234 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Somewhat agree, but Facebook and social media are really bad though, even leaving aside extreme cases like Myanmar genocide promotion.

I think Facebook would need to do a lot more to balance the scales.

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waffletower 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It absolutely does not absolve them of sin. But let's give them credit where it is due. Open models are a really good thing. Hopefully I won't be lynched by a mob in 3 years for once saying this.

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popalchemist an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Preventing one apocalypse is good but it doesn't absolve another.