"I got a short time on this earth" (sic) says the guy correcting da share z0ne's grammar on Mastodon.
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Alex Nobert
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@joshuatopolsky Wait did he just monetise bots spamming his platform?
@caseynewton Did this originate in the Instagram org, or did it come from above? What I'm wondering is how invested Zuck is in it, since that will go a long way towards determining if this ever hits production. And if it does, how much runway it's given.
Adi RobertsonMe making an internal change: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me experiencing some unintended consequences: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me experiencing some unintended consequences: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
@thedextriarchy Maybe the next step is plugging in an AI to review AI performance and handle appeals of AI decisions. The humans can just shrug their shoulders helplessly and point to the AI 🤷🏽♂️
📰 AI Announces AI Doing Great!
@thedextriarchy Just wait until they start plugging it into more things than scrapable web data and text boxes on web sites! Can't wait for badly-tuned AI with access to realtime observations being able to, I dunno, charge people with crimes or deploy armed robots.
@thedextriarchy my initial reaction was that it doesn't seem worth it to make a bunch of people stupider and potentially cause harm while AI developers figure it out, but we're doing a fine job of being wrong and getting stupider without AI, so maybe we should just leave them to it.
@thedextriarchy Naturally, no one will open source their secret sauce. I don't know that Twitter considers their recommendation engine as a core differentiator, since as you point out it's not really a big part of The Twitter Experience (yet?), so maybe there's a chance.
And anyway, with Elon in charge, we can't rely on logic or good sense to dictate Twitter's decisions, so who knows.
@thedextriarchy Maybe both. Twitter has very smart engineers solving problems at scales that few other companies face. How they do certain things which may be easy at smaller scale might necessitate novel approaches at Twitter scale.
Of course that competitive advantage is a reason Twitter might not want to open source it. Companies do open source things that will benefit others, with the return being free community development (and second order effects like marketing to recruitable engineers)