"Don't support billionaires' social networks! Use mine and make me a billionaire!"
I'm sure there's a fault in that reasoning, I just can't put my finger on it.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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“The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous,” says someone working at another big AI lab. “Especially how people create viral tweets by getting it to say something stupid.”
AGI is just around the corner guys
Time to start a new business to distract people the previous one is not living up to expectations. Musk style. (A degree of vertical integration will also be involved)
E: '"The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous,” says someone working at another big AI lab. “Especially how people create viral tweets by getting it to say something stupid.”' These are deeply unserious people, billions of dollars just to build AI Dril, which was already a thing. Is there some weird nerd somewhere who said something like 'culture is downstream from viral memes' or something just as dumb? Related to that, so I have basically quit twitter, and only visit there to look up if a quoted thing was real etc, but damn the site has gotten bad. How does anybody use it when so many replies are either bot replies, ai replies or people using their checkmark to push their one word replies to the top? Esp bigger accounts/viral tweets just get swarmed with shit. It has a bit of the 'comment section of abandoned blog' feeling to it. And this is the validation the AI company craves?
It's really the perfect opportunity for integration! They can steal the data and content of their own users, instead of other people's users, and then they can serve their slop directly to their own users instead of users having to generate and export their slop to other people's social media sites. And both of these applications can distract from the fact that AGI isn't happening and even more modest LLM agents aren't practically useful. And since Altman already built up a user base on ChatGPT, he'll have a head start on getting a critical mass of users!
Thinking about it... something like this is probably Altman's best bet for making OpenAI's financials work out, because as David Gerard and Ed Zitron and others have all pointed out, they are losing money per LLM user, so they really do need a way to convert a huge user base into money that doesn't involve LLMs.
This post was reported with the reason "Not sure if this community has rules to keep the original headline….?" To be clear: We don't.
That sometimes the crazy headline rewrite is actually the articles headline is half the fun.
“They changed the only part of the article that I read! I’m gonna report this!!!!”
Can’t go sneering with our wits tied behind our backs!
Remember Friendster? It's back, in slop form!
I've never seen Milhouse and Sam in the same room together
exciting news! everybody wants this!
lol. lmao.
He’s cooked
In a way, this is true. Not if you build a software social network, but if you build up your personal social network by pandering the right people, and forgoing your morals, this is feasible. Requires a ton of luck still, but it's at least more feasible than creating a digital social network in modern society. Million dollars really isn't all that much anymore. If I was morally bankrupt I'd start by making friends with health insurance big wigs.
Yeah no. Jk. This guy's a fucking moron
To be clear, it's well known L Ron Hubbard quote originally about starting a religion, to my knowledge Altman didn't really say that.