{"id":1075734,"date":"2024-10-07T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/mark-zuckerberg-shows-off-bizarre-video-of-himself-leg-pressing-chicken-nuggets.php"},"modified":"2024-10-07T02:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:41:51","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-shows-off-bizarre-video-of-himself-leg-pressing-chicken-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/mark-zuckerberg-shows-off-bizarre-video-of-himself-leg-pressing-chicken-nuggets.php","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2024\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-leg-pressing-chicken-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Combo Meal<\/h2><p>Meta-formerly-Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/blog\/movie-gen-media-foundation-models-generative-ai-video\/\">announced<\/a> a new suite of AI-powered video-creating and editing tools today, collectively called \"Meta Movie Gen.\"<\/p><p>Longtime CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the new AI offering in his <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mark-zuckerberg-augmented-reality-swordfighting\">favorite way<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CUBVheLMULt\/?hl=en\">promote anything<\/a>: by showing off his love for fitness &mdash; albeit with some very strange, very AI twists.<\/p><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/blog\/movie-gen-media-foundation-models-generative-ai-video\/\">a bizarre Instagram video<\/a>, Zuck can be seen doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/fitness\/multimedia\/leg-press\/vid-20084684\">leg presses<\/a> in a series of increasingly strange AI-generated settings. In the first scene, he's pictured using the machine in a neon-lit gym; in the next, he's dressed like Caeser and pictured against a distinctly ancient Roman backdrop. At one point he's pressing dripping racks of gold.<\/p><p>Then, in perhaps the strange scene of all, Zuck is suddenly pictured leg-pressing a large bucket of chicken nuggets whilst surrounded by a sea of french fries.<\/p><p>\"Every day is leg day with Meta's new MovieGen AI model that can create and edit videos,\" Zuck captioned the video. \"Coming to Instagram next year.\"<\/p><p>Sure! Why not. Generative AI might be guzzling energy and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/ai-environmental-toll-worse-than-you-think\">drastically worsening carbon emissions<\/a> in the process, but we get... a fake billionaire nugget press. Will somebody please make it make sense?<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-332703\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2024\/10\/Screen-Shot-2024-10-04-at-2.03.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1758\" height=\"1536\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><h2>Mixed Reactions<\/h2><p>The top comments on the video were overwhelmingly positive.<\/p><p>\"Whoa!\" wrote one impressed Instagram user. \"That's exciting!!\"<\/p><p>But other Instagram users were more skeptical.<\/p><p>\"Second richest man in the world spending his [research &amp; development] money on this,\" commented one user, seemingly incredulous of Meta's resource allocation.<\/p><p>\"How many artists did you steal from to train your AI?\" asked another netizen. A fair question, given that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/zuckerberg-fine-train-ai-data-no-value\">Zuck recently drew criticism for declaring that<\/a> \"individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content.\"<\/p><h2>Looking Ahead<\/h2><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/blog\/movie-gen-media-foundation-models-generative-ai-video\/\">a press release<\/a>, Meta characterized Movie Gen as an \"advanced and immersive storytelling suite of models\" with \"four capabilities: video generation, personalized video generation, precise video editing, and audio generation.\"<\/p><p>But the chicken nugget promo aside, there's no set release date for the tool.<\/p><p>\"We aren't ready to release this as a product anytime soon,\" Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@chriscox\/post\/DAtB1-EvyY-\">wrote in a Threads post<\/a>, \"but we wanted to share where we are since the results are getting quite impressive.\"<\/p><p>Or, alternatively, Meta wants its shareholders to know that a competitor to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-sora-video-generator\">OpenAI's Sora model<\/a> is in the works &mdash; and that Zuck can leg press copious amounts of chicken nuggets.<\/p><p><strong>More on Mark Zuckerberg:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/zuckerberg-fine-train-ai-data-no-value\"><em>Zuckerberg Says It's Fine to Train AI on Your Data Because It Probably Has No Value Anyway<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mark-zuckerberg-leg-pressing-chicken\">Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>See more here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mark-zuckerberg-leg-pressing-chicken\" title=\"Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets\">Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Combo Meal Meta-formerly-Facebook announced a new suite of AI-powered video-creating and editing tools today, collectively called \"Meta Movie Gen.\" Longtime CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off the new AI offering in his favorite way to promote anything : by showing off his love for fitness \u2014 albeit with some very strange, very AI twists.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/mark-zuckerberg-shows-off-bizarre-video-of-himself-leg-pressing-chicken-nuggets.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1247142,1247146,1246709,1247147,1246925,1247144,1247145,1247056,1247141,1246922,1247143,1247139],"class_list":["post-1075734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","tag-a-wants-its","tag-ai-video","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bizarre","tag-data","tag-instagram","tag-looking-ahead","tag-press-release","tag-showing-off-his","tag-strange","tag-tool","tag-train"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}