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Meta does a good thing

HN spends a day figuring out how it’s actually bad

It’s not actually bad, OP’s point is that it is not motivated by altruism. An action can be beneficial to the people without that effect being the incentive

Of course, it's not altruism; it's a publicly traded corporation. No one should ever believe in any such claims by these organizations. Non-altruistic organizations can still make positive-impact actions when they align with their goals.

So you think FB did this with zero benefit to themselves? They did open source so people could improve their models and eventually have a paid tier later either from hosting services or other strategies

The linked article already spelled out the benefits

No one said it was bad. It's just self interested (as companies generally are) and are using that to have a PR spin on the topic. But again, this is what all companies do and nothing about it is bad per se.

Nothing they're doing is bad, and sometimes we benefit when large companies interests align with our own. All the spiel about believing in open systems because of being prevented from making their best products by Apple is a bit much considering we're talking about Facebook which is hardly an 'open platform', and the main thing Apple blocked them on was profiling their users to target ads.

By virtue of it being Meta, it's automatically bad.

If we lived in a sensible world we'd have nuked Meta into a trillion tiny little pieces some time around the Cambridge Analytica bullshit.

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