In 2011, early Facebooker John Hammerbacher was quoted as saying:

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks

Given Facebook (sorry, I mean Meta’s) latest statement about artificial general intelligence, an all the enthusiasm poured into AI by Microsoft and Google and others, I feel as if that statement can be slightly amended now.

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make computers generate things that make people click ads. That sucks