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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
#52Sometimes I am jealous of these people. They arent doing the corporate grind, and they arent even really doing the startup grind. They are shilling stuff on the internet and avoiding spending their lives working. I know a few, they live great, though frugal lives. I go to my job at prestigious big Co and often wonder who the smart one is, me or them
> I go to my job at prestigious big Co and often wonder who the smart one is, me or them
You're the smarter one, because you're reflecting on who is the smarter one.
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#531. If you're still on bird-app, I feel it's important to ignore the "For you" tab and strictly look at the "Following" view, and follow only people whose posts you consistently appreciate. The noise ratio is so high now, and not just about AI.
> What they share across platforms and fields is less any particular insight and more a deep and abiding faith in the accuracy and power of a still-developing technology about which not much is known (and where what little is known is often kept secret by the private companies developing it).
2. I think specifically _because_ most people won't understand it at a deep level, and it is still a bit inchoate but with potentially wide scope, it _invites_ influencers who don't know or don't care to know what they're talking about in the same way as crypto, the web, DNA sequencing, or nuclear fission. We were promised nuclear cars and planes, medical care tailored to our personal genetics, a global computer that democratizes access to all human knowledge, and useful and ubiquitous digital currencies. Even when the tech is really transformative, the early pundits aren't going to have an accurate view of what the transformation will look like. And it doesn't help that we didn't hold the line on saying "ML" instead of "AI".
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#54Stopped by whom? I'm not sure how "stop paying attention to the contents if you don't like them" can't work for us.
The Committee of A.I. Tweeters should sanction them or take away their license to post low quality tweets
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#55This 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.
"must be stopped" is a meme which means "is annoying"
Re: The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm one of those people who keeps learning neologisms from 2017 and thinking they're new -- I guess that's what it means to be pushing 40 -- but I'm not ashamed to say that "broetry" is my new word of 2023.
I don't care if everyone else has moved on, I'm bringing it back, complete with the wide-eyed wonder and innocent delight of a child discovering a new kind of play for the first time. This is brilliant. Thank you giving vocabulary to a concept hitherto ineffable, or at least unwieldy and difficult to bracket within my existing verbal facility.
Broetry!
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#57Sometimes I am jealous of these people. They arent doing the corporate grind, and they arent even really doing the startup grind. They are shilling stuff on the internet and avoiding spending their lives working. I know a few, they live great, though frugal lives. I go to my job at prestigious big Co and often wonder who the smart one is, me or them
I wonder where their revenue comes from, affiliate links, consulting, some eventual hiring at prestigious big Co?
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#581. If you're still on bird-app, I feel it's important to ignore the "For you" tab and strictly look at the "Following" view, and follow only people whose posts you consistently appreciate. The noise ratio is so high now, and not just about AI. > What they share across platforms and fields is less any particular insight and more a deep and abiding faith in the accuracy and power of a still-developing technology about…
...For as long as Musk allows people to ignore those who have paid him to shove their words in front of as many eyeballs as possible. I really don't expect the "Following" view to remain safe from this for long.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be fooled by the glamorous facade of such "influencers". It's as tough a grind as any corporate job. There is 24x7 demand for new content. You have to compete with a million others in the space, and it is next to impossible to set yourself apart. Only the top 0.1% have any real viewership and are making money. For the rest, the "living frugally" part you mention is likely not by choice.
If it were easy, everybody would be doing it.
I wouldn't, no matter how easy it is. I'd rather do work that at least has some value and meaning.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
And whilst churning out bad takes about AI on Twitter is about the lowest hanging fruit out there for LLMs, it's a fair bet none of these 'experts' on 'AI disruption' have outsourced their tweets to one yet...
I would put good money on the bet that there's at least one influencer primarily using ChatGPT to generate their content. Spam of all sorts is the one category that ChatGPT can do with cheap, superhuman performance today.
Oh I'm 100% sure ChatGPT can do it brilliantly, I just suspect that most of the people trying to be 'AI influencers' (i) actually enjoy coming up with middlebrow takes on AI, reading others' middlebrow takes on AI and monitoring their timeline for retweets and (ii) lack the tech skills to set the ChatGPT API up to tweet on their behalf...