Brian Barrett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You could not.
Zoe, that's a great question.
I'm so glad you asked.
You could not opt out.
In fact, when an employee asked in a very public forum within Meta, hey, could we not do this?
Zoe, the response was?
That's like 7,000 people.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, and there seems to be sort of a little bit, I think our reporting has shown, a little bit of like mission drift within the company, right?
Yeah.
And you've seen that not just with AI.
You've seen that, I think, for a long time when you see this $80 billion bet or whatever it was on the metaverse and then saying, oh, never mind, here's this new shiny thing.
AI is not another metaverse.
AI, I think, has a better business case behind it.
But at the same time, to your point, it's not right now.
It's not making money.
So people were just like...
Not inspired.
Even Meta has acknowledged that 10%-ish of its ad revenue comes from scams.
They're like, yes, we know there are scams.