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The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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Why do we need to stop them? I despise these chumps too, but I also control the content I consume. Non-technical business types have always made lofty promises online, you can avoid them by not using for-profit soapbox platforms like Twitter, Substack and Medium.

Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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This is so funny. I've noticed these lame influencers shilling AI strategies on twitter even though I don't follow them. But the algorithm sees engagement from others so it thinks I'll like it too.

There's a pattern developing on twitter (and other socials).

Life coach types, just shill the next big thing.

It was Crypto, then NFTs, now AI.

Wonder what will be next?

Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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post #2

Why do we need to stop them? I despise these chumps too, but I also control the content I consume. Non-technical business types have always made lofty promises online, you can avoid them by not using for-profit soapbox platforms like Twitter, Substack and Medium.

Why do we need to cure cancer?

Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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post #6

This post spends a lot of time criticizing the "pointless line breaks" but not a lot of time on why this is a problem or "must be stopped". Block or mute the people that annoy you and move on; problem solved.

It's contributing to the massive signal-to-noise decline on tech related topics on Twitter lately.

As an open-source AI developer myself I'm discouraged because anything I'd release would be drowned out by hypebros.

Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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> Underrated aspect of paid checks and longer tweets with amplification is that Twitter 2.0 has basically recreated LinkedIn broetry. https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1650265151227174912

Linkedin Broetry is such a great phrase!

The phrase was coined years ago partially by the same writer: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/why-are-these-p...

LinkedIn discourse hasn't changed since.

Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

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post #6

This post spends a lot of time criticizing the "pointless line breaks" but not a lot of time on why this is a problem or "must be stopped". Block or mute the people that annoy you and move on; problem solved.

It's contributing to the massive signal-to-noise decline on tech related topics on Twitter lately. As an open-source AI developer myself I'm discouraged because anything I'd release would be drowned out by hypebros.

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