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Comment by willtemperley | Hacker News Reader

Who in their right mind would install a Meta AI with near admin privileges?

"Normies" aka the average user on Meta. They have no concept of what "admin privileges" means and don't really care. I still have a hard time convincing my clients to use secure passwords. I have clients who were phished for substantial amounts of money and STILL don't implement proper security measures.

Almost everyone who is struggling with AI insecurity and is afraid of being left behind

No, most workers don't really say this in surveys and polling. They tend to hate LLM tools because it makes their jobs worse, nothing about being left behind.

The only people pushing the "left behind" narrative is SV + SF + VC since their previous narratives have failed to persuade the public (thank fuck).

I’m pretty sure you misread the comment you responded to

This is kinda the reason why the Meta stock might be pumping and Muse might leap ahead other AI solutions as far as market share goes. Quoted from Prof G Markets podcast: "meta has been molesting your privacy for 10 years".

It stands to reason their daily active users just don't care, they are already sharing so much on Meta's platforms it won't matter to them.

We all fear the true answer to that question.

> Who in their right mind would install a Meta AI

I fixed it for ya

Normally I’m not one to blame the victims but, uh, yeah who in the world is dumb enough to trust Meta at this point?

Billions of people

Sad, yet true

almost every normal person

most people don't know or care what "admin privileges" even means, or why they wouldn't want ai to have them

“They trust me, dumb fucks”.

And before this gets flagged or downvoted or "he was young" or "he was joking" or "he was making a point: he was saying 'I could be anyone', not that he can't be trusted" answer me what other tech people say this, ever, along with all the other charges ("I'm going to fuck them [the Winklevoss twins] in the ear", "You can be unethical and legal and that's how i live my life haha", hacking Crimson reporters, and that's just at Harvard, let alone when Facebook became available to the public

Honestly, a lot of people start using this line of humor when their peers do. Add in that he was young, and this was before people’s private messages being released easily to the masses was common, Im not really surprised.

> people’s private messages being released easily to the masses was common, Im not really surprised.

He, personally, did a lot to enable this reality.

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