Kevin Rothrock
i_give_u_worms@kevinrothrock he can browse that straight into the river
Thin Crust Tavern Cut@i_give_u_worms @kevinrothrock We have a saying in the Chicago area: Walk east until your hat floats.
Mark Lynch@i_give_u_worms @kevinrothrock @GregArcus on this side of the pond, one might say “get in the fucking sea”, sounds like the Chicago equivalent is “get in the fucking lake” 😀
lupus_blackfurPerplexity can inception-ally fuck itself right out of existence.
Seriously. They fucking believe **that's** a business plan users want...??
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anubis2814@kevinrothrock Who do they think are saying "Oh, I'm gonna use perplexity now! I want hyper targeted ads!"
John Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️
WTL@kevinrothrock @johnefrancis Hard pass.
Patrick Loftus 🖖
@kevinrothrock Is nobody in his organization going to explain to him how google chrome works? Cowards.
Samhain Night@kevinrothrock
JFC!!! STIP BEING SO DAMN NOSEY AND JUST *ASK ME* WHAT I WANT TO BUY!!!
JFC!!! STIP BEING SO DAMN NOSEY AND JUST *ASK ME* WHAT I WANT TO BUY!!!
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸@samhainnight @kevinrothrock They do not make money with your decision, they make money with the promise of successful mass manipulation. The last thing they want are people who truly make their own decisions.
Mick 🇨🇦@kevinrothrock I was given a Perplexity Premium account as part of some other thing and it is the most worthless of all the GenAI things I have used so far.
The company has an insane valuation and no real product, which is par for the course for “ai” companies, but this one is special and its inevitable implosion will be spectacular.
Jhooper@kevinrothrock for a second I thought his company was called Perversity
Dominik 
@kevinrothrock I guess that’s why they wanna buy chrome
https://www.theverge.com/policy/654835/perplexity-google-antitrust-trial-remedies-chrome
The Psychotic Network Ferret@kevinrothrock Targeted ads? Oh boy! Just what I always wanted!
Fuck this shit. Advertising needs to stop being the business model of the Internet.
The Doctor@kevinrothrock (Not you. Him.)
Miguel Guhlin@kevinrothrock is nothing sacred anymore? 🤣
RejZoR@kevinrothrock Who the fuck will use that thing? Only reason people use Chrome is because of Android and partially because it's thrown at them through Google services.
Kierkegaanks regretfully@kevinrothrock if you prompt an llm to draw a hyper personalized stalker…
Gabriel Adrian Samfira@kevinrothrock back in the day, we used to call that: spyware
✨🇪🇺 Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️⚧️✨The EU would like to know his address :)
Alerta! Alerta!@kevinrothrock I am perplexed....
Did I get that right? The business-model is:
Please use my tool so I can track everything you do online to sell your data for advertisement....
Does anyone involved - at least of the VC people investing in that - realize the ... challenge?
Or has everyone now gone full scale bonkers?
@kevinrothrock I mean, yes: Google, Amazon et al *are* running on that business-model.
But not from the start on. They took quite a while to lure people into their garden and are now making it (perceived) hard for the cattle to leave ...
@heiglandreas @kevinrothrock That's why they want to buy Google's Chrome if it has to be sold. Why lure people into something if you may be able to buy a golden cage that already exists.
Robbin The People@kevinrothrock
How did we end up in every day being 1984?
How did we end up in every day being 1984?
Lapo Luchini@kevinrothrock I really wonder how you can assert that in public with a straight face, convinced it will help you sell.
(roll m3tti)@kevinrothrock hyper personalized man humanity is running out of words. What a pitty even ai is now taken for something way worse than what ai ment to be. I feel really guilty and sad for generations to come.
Joshua Small@kevinrothrock facebook has been promising personalised ads since its ads started, which has always been its argument around the tracking it does. I see no end of advertisements to vote for particular us state senators and even mayors in us towns. I see ads to join the us military. In Australia.
Dmian 🇪🇺@kevinrothrock Tech bros can get together and form a human centipede. In that way they’ll put the amount of shit they have to an interesting use…
Chuso Pérez@kevinrothrock He said the quiet part out loud.
Nick Appleyard
Sasha@kevinrothrock laughs in there isn't enough demand side material for hyper personalised relevance.
The reason why we don't get adverts for guitar strings after we've bought guitars is because the ads don't exist, not because they can't tell we like strumming.