A writer for The Verge criticized Mark Zuckerberg's vision for AI
The Verge writer Elizabeth Lopatto offered a critical assessment of Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto on artificial intelligence. In the subtitle of her column, she described the proposed future as a world of “smooth, simplified, and entirely empty” relationships. The author also writes that Zuckerberg is trying to come across as a reassuring tech guru.
Lopatto begins her piece with a story about a man she used to go rock climbing with. Using AI, he created a motivational poster and hung it in his bedroom. The image showed a bear walking a tightrope over a canyon and holding a sign with a motivational message.
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According to the man, he had already shown the poster to other people, but no one had commented on it. Lopatto notes that even a poorly drawn picture created by a human requires effort, time, and attention from the artist and reflects their thoughts and skills.
In the author’s opinion, creating an AI image may come down to entering a prompt and making a few adjustments to the result, so the viewer may not have anything to react to. She mentions Zuckerberg’s manifesto as a continuation of this theme and speculates that it could have been written by Zuckerberg himself, his communications team, or artificial intelligence. The column provides no evidence to support any of these possibilities.
