pixelpop3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall, I can see liking this. But mostly I think the summaries should be public.

  But in general the problem with moderators is they can be fairly partisan. I don’t know if it’s still the case after the whole API … thing, but certain groups of moderators had access to bots that did what is essentially equivalent to the sort of thing.

  A problem I generally had with reddit towards the ends is that a lot of things reported to admin were being evaluated by non-American English speakers who don’t have the context to understand sharp turns of phrase. Americans would understand the words meaning the opposite of what they literally mean, but you can’t expect overseas contractors to understand these nuances. So I would be concerned that AI is similar except for the fact that it’s not a change from the status quo.

  Would be nice if we also had AI summaries of moderator behavior and if these were visible to everyone. I wouldn’t be surprised if admin have (or soon will have) access to AI summaries of moderator activity and behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. Vance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah these things are Rorschach amplifiers. It tells you a lot about the person writing the prompt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Are People Still Doing on X?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are people still doing on the Internet? There are Nazis on the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still up 55% vs one year ago. Yeah it’s fallen from its post-election run up, but frankly it just looks like it’s gone back to pre-election value and trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep seeing this analogy and unfortunately that’s not how email servers work so it never really helps honestly. The servers are the To: fields, not the From: fields. And there’s also no real analogy about privacy. With most email providers the intent isn’t that everyone reads everyone else’s email. So frankly I really don’t know what insight this is supposed to provide if it doesn’t behave like email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would literally buy an electric VW Beetle so far at this point for the lulz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Blog) How I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doist is very much remote work (and has offices/legal presence in many countries). Global headquarters are in Portugal and CEO lives/works from in Italy from what I can tell.