How A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon Valley

An an excellent example of a PR department managing to place gushing positive “dynamic tech CEO just wants to do engineering” narrative into one of the leading papers that gushes about the supposed how so hard, asking “why” never occurred to the reporter.

Completely lacking?

- Any critical of how spending more money than the US spent on the Manhattan project to end World War II and giving the results away for free on the streets fits into Meta’s business model (A company mind you that got lambasted for spending much less on the Metaverse)

- Any question about “commoditize your complements” which is shocking because the press has been on the receiving end of this aggressive business tactics, losing much of their constituency to Facebook as a result.

- Any deeper questions about why private companies are spending the farm on AI, busting their carbon commitments for the third year straight.

- Any question about whether Open Source is one of the key enablers of the record breaking layoffs in Silicon Valley, lead by Meta, by outsourcing tedious PMF and R&D work traditionally done by in house production teams.

- Any exploration on whether using an existing ad duopoly position to price dump the cost of extremely expensive technology to a point where even the most well funded startups in the history of Silicon Valley can not compete (“free”) may constitute potentially illegal monopoly and market distortion.

- Any deeper critical exploration of the misappropriation of the term “Open Source” (vs “Open Weights”), currently open lawsuits about Llama training data (some of which the NYT is exposed to) and anything else corporate PR would like to not distract from the “Tech CEO successfully remakes image to be cool again as most of his peers are struggling to read the room” narrative that’s their PSC kpi for the half.