Joke's on them because I use AI to generate LI content.
LinkedIn content only had a thin veneer of humanity before the onslaught of LLMs anyways.
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#82It really pisses me off that privacy services (and push notification) are enabled by default. I’ve gone in and disabled virtually everything, it’s reasonable to deduce I value my privacy enough to do that, then I probably don’t want new enabled-by-default things in that category.
I’m curious if LI has scraped data before giving people the opportunity to disable the feature.
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#83It might be cool if we eventually got some sort of a LinkedIn co-pilot to help with applying for jobs, but then again, who knows
What's so cool about competing with 5,000 low effort applications that can't be achieved right now competing with 50?
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#84so wait that means the model will be able to identify me in other data sets right
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#85nice, AI trained on a nihilist corpus. it will be so stunning and brave.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is a huge market for resume builders and career guidance where AI can play a role. Using LinkedIn you can measure success and network performance and correlate that to the resume and posted content.
I'm guessing the real money linked in wants is in the hiring and firing, B2B. Now, every resume gets answered and your first interaction with a company is a poorly scripted AI who goes from manic enthusiasm to depressingly rote in the actual job requirements and probably will still ghost you and continue the imbalance of application effort vs employer response. The converse will be true, but the price of AI will just…
This seems to imply that machines would ghost humans to save on token fees. I wouldn't rule it out.
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#87Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right?
I don't mean fake users (although I wouldn't put corporate greed beyond trying to fake users). It could be sold as a helpful feature, like summaries of workplace happenings, news, world events, or discussions on the platform in the feeds. Of course, they would need to be filtered for ethical alignment with the social media company, as well as community safety, naturally... Certain political opinions may be less safe than others, and so on...
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#88I'm so glad I left linkedin years ago and never went back.
I also deleted about 1-2 years ago. I’ve been wondering if I will regret it next time I am looking for work. Have you been in that position yet? I am seeking validation that I didn’t screw my future self over lol. Despite how truly awful the platform is, it’s still ubiquitous…
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#90Social media websites could use AI to simply generate posts. I mean, why not? User engagement is all that counts, it doesn't matter by what means and at what moral costs, right? I don't mean fake users (although I wouldn't put corporate greed beyond trying to fake users). It could be sold as a helpful feature, like summaries of workplace happenings, news, world events, or discussions on the platform in the feeds. Of…
Reddit founders created alts and posted with them to give the impression of a thriving community back in the beginning. Now that could all be automated. Bluesky will probably be the last "authentic" social media site, and even then, it's initial gain was from name recognition of the people starting it. From now on out ask yourself if you are joining a real community or something astroturfed.