I actively avoid everything that has anything to do with Facebook, and I can't be the only one.
Re:Segment Anything Demo by Meta AI
by throwaway290 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:33PM
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Ever used React or PyTorch? Well, this is same.
If you do open source adding an element of corporate branding is a sure way to kill the project. That's why it's not called "Apple Swift" or "Microsoft TypeScript".
Yeah, me too. I also avoid everything Apple and Google makes, but I'm not going to pretend like the Alphabet rebranding is their attempt at hiding who they are.
Alphabet wasn't a rebranding: the founding billionaires got bored of Google, and wanted to take out a few billion dollars per year out of it to create new toys without sharing it with Google.
On the other hand, this is one of those things (like VR) that is a distinctly non-Facebook project. It makes no sense to position or market this as "Facebook" research. The Homepod isn't called the iPod Home for obvious reasons, so it stands to reason that Facebook execs realized selling someone a "Facebook Quest" sounds like a metaphor for ayahuasca. It's not entirely stupid to rebrand, especially considering how diverse (and undeniably advanced) they've become in fields like AI and VR.