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An exclusive interview with an AI neural network based on Mark Zuckerberg
Ever since the glorious disaster that was Cambridge Analytica and the entire political climate of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg has been making the rounds from press outlets to private meetings with Republican donors to Congressional testimonies to more private meetings with Republican donors, all with increasing frequency. But he has yet to grant an audience to the Guardian since they broke the initial story with whistleblower testimony.
So naturally, the Guardian enlisted the help of Botnick Studios to create a neural network trained on some 200,000+ words from Zuckerberg's interviews, speeches, and blogposts over the last three years. And they interviewedthat instead.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this "Zuckerbot" sounds about as convincing as the real Zuckerberg which is to say like an eerily fabricated alien simulacrum of a human being. For example, here's how it describes the purpose of Facebook:
First, I want to thank you all for being a part of my mission. The purpose of Facebook is to bring about internet for people in the digital room. It is about advertising dollars to people who pay to be able to pay. We believe in building $8bn of voice on the platform for dads who are hungry for coffee.
And on his secret meetings with Donald Trump:
Read the restIs anything ever secure? Is anything ever secret? Guess what? The answer is a clear maybe. Or maybe not. I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with him and Congress. You cant expect me to tell you a secret that I didnt share with him but I am confident that we are sharing the same infrastructure.
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