Dave Lee

@daveleeFT
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US Technology Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York.
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Dave LeeOct 7, 2023
WetHatđź’¦Oct 6, 2023

@daveleeFT argues that social networks influence the behavior of their users by creating positive incentives and improving the quality of conversations, but #X (aka #twitter) is doing the opposite. He concludes that X is an app that exploits human misery and fuels online hostility.

Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x

#ElonMusk #socialmedia

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

Bloomberg
Dave LeeJul 1, 2023
ændraJun 21, 2023

There's a boatload of design and UX jobs at the Financial Times rn:

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4183076101

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4186739101

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes33/jobs/4127044101

Please DM me if you have any questions! The FT’s an awesome place to work, I’ve been there since 2016.

Director of Product Design and User Research

London

Dave LeeMay 18, 2023
TechmemeMay 18, 2023

An investigation finds only ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the organization was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below $50M-$100M claims (Mark Harris/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/elon-musk-used-to-say-he-put-100m-in-openai-but-now-its-50m-here-are-the-receipts/
http://www.techmeme.com/230518/p10#a230518p10

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

Dave LeeMay 3, 2023
Despite years of study around “healthy conversations”, the Jack Dorsey-backed BlueSky repeats many of Twitter’s mistakes https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-03/many-will-use-jack-dorsey-s-bluesky-like-they-use-elon-musk-s-twitter-badly
Bluesky Repeats Most of Twitter's Mistakes

The Jack Dorsey-backed social networking app is big on aspiration, but lacking in detail.

Bloomberg
Dave LeeMay 2, 2023
Is anyone gathering data on the flow of AI expertise from academia to corporate?
Dave LeeApr 29, 2023
Celebrations over at Bluesky as they reach 50k users. Mastodon at 11 million+ yet still written off as the post-Twitter platform. What am I missing?
Dave LeeApr 28, 2023
Not sure about Bluesky. Making the same mistakes as Twitter when it comes to building solid foundations. And what happened to all of Dorsey’s work on “healthy” conversations? The mechanisms are exactly the same on bluesky.
Dave LeeApr 25, 2023

My latest column for Bloomberg Opinion: why prompt engineering is the new “learn to code” in tech.

In the ChatGPT Age, Prompting Is the Language to Learn https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-25/the-rise-of-chatgpt-means-we-all-need-to-learn-to-prompt-ai

In the ChatGPT Age, Prompting Is the Language to Learn

Most AI will keep relying heavily on the human in the loop to provide instruction, refine outputs and push the technology to new directions.

Bloomberg
Dave LeeApr 13, 2023
Be honest -- do you feel Mastodon has lost some of the momentum it seemed to gain in the immediate aftermath of Musk buying Twitter? If so, what needs to change?
Dave LeeApr 10, 2023
Where can I find the most recent Mastodon user numbers?