Dorian lives ...

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Having one Zuck is bad enough. How about two, an AI twin emulating the ethos of 
Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon in order to surveil employees.

This plan of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791.

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single prison officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

The 2026 version ...

Even for an executive long known by employees as the “Eye of Sauron,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the concept of micromanagement to its final form, the Financial Times reports, by using AI to develop a “photorealistic, AI-powered 3D” version of himself to converse with and offer feedback to employees.

The dystopian effort is part of a broader push to create avatars, based on public figures, that Meta’s customers can interact with in real time. It’s a concept that has struggled to catch on with the public, if the company’s previous forays into character chatbots are anything to go by.

The faux Zuckerberg AI will be trained on a wealth of imagery of the executive and his voice. The effort is personally being overseen by the billionaire, who is reportedly spending five to ten hours a week vibe coding.

A picture of the cover of the July 1890 edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine,
where "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was first published

Hate to say it but Zuck's move reminds one of Dorian. Interesting take is it not?