Zuckerberg's reasoning on AI/ML seemed very justifiable to me in the Dwarkesh podcast
IIRC,
- Having a better model is a competitive advantage in fighting against spam
- Better models enables facebook itself to understand their code vulnerabilities, better employee productivity etc.
- Being in the frontier of open source, keeps them at an advantage in terms of updates from community
Also Meta is in the business of sharing content. Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp are all about sharing content.
They’re highly incentivized to expand the options for generating content. OpenAI and Anthropic have to make money from the generation, which raises the barrier to creation. Meta can say fuck it, let everyone create and well sell ads against what they create.
IIRC,
- Having a better model is a competitive advantage in fighting against spam - Better models enables facebook itself to understand their code vulnerabilities, better employee productivity etc. - Being in the frontier of open source, keeps them at an advantage in terms of updates from community