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Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 79 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Motherfuckers even named their company after their useless hype product and then 5 years later just quietly kill it. Peak billionaire behaviour

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.

[–] YaksDC@sh.itjust.works 15 points 17 hours ago

More like tattooing that name on your face.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 26 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

We taking bets on the next rebrand name?

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

It was "Meta", but now they're going all-in on AI, so they'll probably want to go "MetAI" except that it's lame and so are all the other various portmanteaus, so they'll pivot to something inexplicable and wild like "Everything" or "AllAI"

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 13 points 17 hours ago

I'm going to guess they'll keep it and justify it as "metadata". Like the metadata of it's users that it sells

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Molt

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, by induction since the last hype was the "metaverse" and they rebranded to Meta, so because now the hype is "AI" they'll rebrand to A, or maybe Artificial.

Q.E.D.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Since there is still nothing actually worth calling "metaverse" as the sci-fi concept it was promised to be, they might go for something around AGI.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

In all seriousness I really could see Zuck going for some AGI bullshit, or even ASI

Edit: oh fuck, ASImov! That's what they'll call it next

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 9 hours ago

Oh great, because billionaires shitting on Tolkien wasn't enough.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 11 points 21 hours ago

Nothing But Bots ™️

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago

Dead Internet Company

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

AI

I can call you Meta, and Meta you can call me AI. Call me AI.