I imagine it like a casino acquiring a former-joke product, which made hologram/animatronic illusions of people "winning big" at a table or slot-machine. Now whenever they detect a current customer might cut their losses and go home--OMG, look, that person over there just hit the jackpot!
replyIn other words, Facebook has a strong financial incentive to misrepresent (to ad-viewing customers, if not to investors) exactly how much social-ness is present to experience, and how much approval and attention the user gets from participating.
Soon everything will be The Truman Show.
But they could implement it without buying Moltbook. Easily. They have the money and the engineers to make it happen a hundred times over. Something like it already might be on Facebook.
replyTo me, this feels more like acquiring the name. Everyone's heard that 'trademark' so they want to have it so they could reuse it for whatever they make later.
Zuck realizes that by 20230, Facebook will be mostly for AIs. He's just leaning into it.
replyDo you think it could happen any sooner than that?
replyGiven that Meta itself has been trialing turning instagram into a bot wasteland... yeah, it could for sure be sooner
replyIf the claim is true, then Zuck is a real strategic chap. Probably a 4D chess player too.
replyI want to accuse you of using an LLM to write this with the temperature set to some absurdly high value, because on its face it sounds ridiculous.
replyAnd yet, here we are.
It's hard to make this up :)
replyQuickly generating some SaaS product, hyping it up, then getting it acquired
replyI can see that becoming a viable new grift template
Yeah so if you ever need info on people at Harvard just ask... people just submitted it, I don't know why; they 'trust me', dumb fucks
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