Neil Freiman

The real Zuckerberg or the AI avatar Zuckerberg?

Obviously, you're going to have your AI avatar do it.

But I am interested in how this might look like in practice.

So you're a meta employee going to work.

You open up your laptop, and there's just a face of Mark Zuckerberg face there, like clippy, that you can ask questions to.

I mean, maybe that's not so ridiculous.

But Zuckerberg himself, he has a history of doing this.

He loves digitally cloning himself.

Go back to 2022 when they introduced the metaverse.

The first thing that they showed was a very cartoonish-looking robot

Mark Zuckerberg in Horizon Worlds, which was their metaverse space.

So he seems very okay with just someone taking his likeness and just putting it anywhere.

He might be the guinea pig also for larger ambitions Meta might have in creating AI avatars of influencers and creators, which are so integral to their social media ecosystem.

I would say Meta, more than any other AI company, is really interested in photorealistic embodiments of AI characters in a way that certainly like Anthropic, OpenAI,

And Microsoft are not or Google.

So maybe maybe they're using Zuckerberg as as a test case to see whether people like interacting with AI photo realistic versions of real people, because then they can take it to influence influencers and creators on Instagram.

And if that drives better engagement, then, you know, that could be great business for them down the line.

I thought you were going to say either less or more robotic than the original version.

No, we're talking about Tax Act.

Then why did I bring a skull?