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Jesse Eisenberg Unfriended Mark Zuckerberg a Long Time Ago

Jesse Eisenberg Unfriended Mark Zuckerberg a Long Time Ago

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Fourteen years after earning an Oscar nomination for playing Mark Zuckerberg in 2010’s The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg has very proudly shed his former character’s hoodie and fuck-you flip-flops. But that hasn’t stopped the world from asking the actor about his most famous role. Eisenberg has been frequently questioned about Zuckerberg while Oscar campaigning for his film A Real Pain, which earned him a best-original-screenplay nomination. During a recent appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today, Eisenberg said that he hasn’t been following the Facebook and Meta chief’s “life trajectory, partly because I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that.” Distance from Zuckerberg has not made Eisenberg’s heart grow fonder, either. “It’s not like I played a great golfer or something and now people think I’m a great golfer,” he continued. “It’s like this guy that’s doing things that are problematic—taking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.” In recent months, the same man whom screenwriter Aaron Sorkin depicted as an innovative …

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

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“An AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer.” Meta Narrative Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he intends to start automating coding jobs with AI — this year.  Zuckerberg announced these ambitions, which if realized would send shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley, on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, as spotted by Business Insider. “Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code,” Zuckerberg said in the interview. A midlevel engineer at Meta, per BI, earns a salary somewhere in the mid-six figures. For the People Though Zuckerberg doesn’t explicitly say he’ll replace his human grunts outright, putting two and two together as he explains how the AI technology will pan out — or looking at literally any company that has bragged about onboarding AI models — makes the implications for people’s jobs pretty clear. “In the beginning …

Mark Zuckerberg Is at War With Himself

Mark Zuckerberg Is at War With Himself

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Mark Zuckerberg is sick of the woke politics governing his social feeds. He’s tired of the censorship and social-media referees meddling in free speech. We’re in a “new era” now, he said in a video today, announcing that he plans to replace Facebook and Instagram fact-checkers with a system of community notes similar to the one on X, the rival platform owned by Elon Musk. Meta will also now prioritize “civic content,” a.k.a. political content, not hide from it. The social-media hall monitors have been so restrictive on “topics of immigration and gender that they’re out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said with the zeal of an activist. He spoke about “a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech” following “nonstop” concerns about misinformation from the “legacy media” and four years of the United States government “pushing for censorship.” It is clear from Zuckerberg’s announcement that he views establishment powers as having tried and failed to solve political problems by suppressing his users. That message is sure to delight Donald Trump and the …

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

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Oh, good. Slop Rock Instead of stemming the tide of a massive tidal wave of AI slop menacing his platforms, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he welcomes AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call this week, Zuckerberg promised to “add a whole new category of content which is AI-generated or AI summarized content, or existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” as quoted by Fortune. Reading between the lines, instead of making the company’s social media platforms a more livable and less ad-infested space, the billionaire is instead choosing to fan the flames — at the same time that Meta pours resources into its own AI. “And I think that that’s gonna be very exciting for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads, or other kinds of feed experiences over time,” an optimistic Zuckerberg told investors. Shrimp My Ride We’ve already seen the proliferation of meaning-defying AI slop — such as AI-generated images of  “shrimp Jesus,” an 18-wheeler overflowing with babies, or a police officers hefting massive bibles through floodwaters — infesting content …

Does Mark Zuckerberg Really Regret All the Censorship?

Does Mark Zuckerberg Really Regret All the Censorship?

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On August 26, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (Facebook and Instagram) wrote to the US House Judiciary Committee, expressing regret for censoring posts in 2021: In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree… Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure,” he continued. The House Judiciary Committee sums up: Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things: 1. Biden-Harris Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024 Zuckerberg vows change: “we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.” Perhaps he has learned something in recent years: For instance, much of the material with respect to COVID …

Trump Threatens to Imprison Mark Zuckerberg

Trump Threatens to Imprison Mark Zuckerberg

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In a forthcoming coffee table book titled “Save America,” former president Donald Trump accuses billionaire Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of scheming to skew the 2020 election against him — and, as spotted by Politico, swears that Zuckerberg will “spend the rest of his life in prison” should he do so again. Per Politico, the coffee table literature features a photo of Zuck and Trump in the White House. To caption the image, Trump writes that the social media founder would “come to the Oval Office to see me” and “bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be.” But in a sudden turn, Trump then alleges — in his characteristically manic capitalization style — that the Facebook founder was secretly playing him by meanwhile “always plotting to install shameful Lock Boxes in a true PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.” With his “lock box” reference, as Politico notes, Trump seems to be referring to the hundreds of millions of dollars that Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated to election infrastructure initiatives …

Mark Zuckerberg reveals giant teal statue of wife Priscilla Chan in photo posted to Instagram | Science & Tech News

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Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has revealed a giant, teal statue of his wife. Posting a picture of the commissioned artwork on Instagram, the tech mogul said: “Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife.” The statue shows a sculpted silver piece of material flowing behind the rendering of Ms Chan and appears to be in a garden. His wife, philanthropist Priscilla Chan, is seen in the photo sipping out of a mug. She commented on her husband’s Instagram post, saying, “The more of me the better?” with a heart emoji. Image: Pic: @zuck / Instagram The statue was created by Daniel Arsham, a New York artist whose work has appeared all over the world and can currently be seen in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield. The replies to Zuckerberg’s post were largely positive, with one user commenting: “Wife guy level: Advanced.” Read more tech news:Robotaxis frustrate sleepless residents with constant honkingGrieving parents tell Ofcom to ‘step up’Love Island star on the impact of trolling “Husbands everywhere are shaking,” …

It’s Mark Zuckerberg as we’ve never seen him! But what’s really behind the new look? | Arwa Mahdawi

It’s Mark Zuckerberg as we’ve never seen him! But what’s really behind the new look? | Arwa Mahdawi

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A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious things via their simple outfits. Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried (now in jail) always looked as if he had rolled out of bed and forgotten to change out of his pyjamas. The late Steve Jobs famously adopted a uniform of black polo necks. Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, once boasted that he owned and wore multiple versions of the same T-shirt because it was efficient. “I’m not a cool person and I’ve never really tried to be cool,” Zuckerberg said in a 2014 Q&A. “I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible … I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous.” That attitude seemed to extend to his hair, which has always been kept Lego-style short. Suddenly, however, tech executives seem to have shed their anti-style sentiment …

Mark Zuckerberg has found a new sense of style. Why?

Mark Zuckerberg has found a new sense of style. Why?

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Mark Zuckerberg looks different. His hair is longer and less restrained. His clothes hang from his frame with an enviable ease, and a rotating repertoire of link chains adorn his neck. For years, Zuckerberg applied the same daily diet of dark wash jeans, gray fitted tees, dad sneakers, and a close, cropped haircut à la his idol Augustus Caesar. Now, it looks like he has taken a sartorial chill pill. Online, reactions have been positive enough that Zuckerberg has begun to engage in the discourse. He’s asked fashion insider and Instagram’s director of fashion partnerships Eva Chen to weigh in on his chain (too long, she said — she was right). A meme of Zuckerberg, edited with facial hair, has also made the rounds.  Before this sudden switch up, Zuckerberg was known for the no-nonsense wardrobe popular with tech execs who hope to be perceived as too busy (or too serious) to care about what they wear. Steve Jobs, famously, wore a uniform of a black Issey Miyake turtleneck and Levi’s 501 classic fit jeans. …

The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg

The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg

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In the run-up to Meta’s first-quarter earnings report this week, a video image of Mark Zuckerberg suddenly started going viral. Not because of the artificial intelligence assistant he was touting or because of the expected ad revenue growth, but because of the silver chain he was wearing around his neck. “Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement about something Meta is doing with A.I., but I could not listen to or retain a second of it because when I look at the Reel of him talking, all I see is necklace,” Amy Odell wrote in her Substack, Back Row. Later, a doctored version of the same picture with Mr. Zuckerberg sporting some scruffy facial hair got people even more excited. The 4,000-plus mostly drooling comments under an Instagram post from the celebrity news account The Shade Room included one from Gwyneth Paltrow, who compared Mr. Zuckerberg to her ex-husband, Chris Martin. All of a sudden, it seems, people care a lot about how Mark Zuckerberg, 39, looks. At a time when the halcyon promise of technology has …