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Comment by giancarlostoro | Hacker News Reader

Will someone at Meta for the love of God make it so none of this stuff goes through Facebook.com? You want customers but most corporate firewalls block social media. Also, a lot of devs do not want their work stuff tied up to their facebook account. For the love of all things show the IG / FB logins as optional and do email as primary.

I am not a fan of Meta but I do cheer for any competitors against OpenAI and Anthropic, the duopoly is getting tiresome.

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I honestly think they're kinda banking on piggybacking off of Facebook account integrity systems to avoid the problems that other LLM providers are facing in trying to prevent mass free trial signups for token relays and so forth.

It's not a good system obviously. Google did this as well for Gemini-CLI, but forced it to be linked to personal Google accounts (which caused a great deal of onboarding friction).

They're spending $100 billion on this stuff and they're worried about free trial signups? Genuinely my opinion couldn't be lower about Meta's AI strategy but even I don't believe they're that stupid. They'd 100x rather have that problem than nobody using it.

I could sign in with my Meta account that is independent and not linked to IG or Facebook. Just click "Login with Email" on dev.meta.ai.

I just tried to sign up for a Meta account and it wanted me to upload a verification selfie. I decided not to.

China says hi.

Not in my case, I don't see any of my employers (past or current) trusting a country like China with their data.

The decades of US brainwashing children into thinking China is the big bad guy has worked unfortunately.

Hello Chinese models run by US providers.

If they trust Chinese models run by US providers less than Meta then your employers are flat-earther level loonies.

Open weights says hi.

Yeah there may be biases but there are imperial biases in western models too.

+10000 to that

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