Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

Post by zo1 » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 1:48 PM UTC

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To think that a company that has failed to create self-driving for nearly a decade could solve "content moderation", one of the hardest problem on the internet that every single of the big companies (who btw hire the best talent) have been struggling with, is truly a shocking statement to me. If all Google and Facebook couldn't solve it, why could a Tesla engineer of all people...

The idea that an AI engineer for self driving could be trivially retasked to content moderation is fairly laughable as well. That's not to say there aren't overlapping skill sets, but the AI tech involved is quite distinct (although there is overlap, I believe some of the latest perception research is trying to adapt transformers from NLP to replace CNNs). Many of my colleagues are AI/ML engineers working on the self…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

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They have solved much harder problems than spam bots.

You mean self driving, which they promised would be ready over 5 years ago and still barely at L3 level? Meanwhile Google engineers have actual L4 level self-driving in both Phoenix and San Francisco (by your logic, they are better than Tesla engineers), yet have not managed to solve Youtube's spam problem.

Post by aaaaaaaaata » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

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Why would Twitter profits matter to shareholders after they divest?

The real question is why would shareholders that care about profits own Twitter stock? In its entire history there have been 2 years it didn’t lose money and actually recorded a profit.

Post by prvc » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

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Some scammers who appear in Musk's replies impersonating him use similar or identical avatars and screen names in order to perpetrate their fraud. Removing and preventing the creation of this type of account would not even require "AI". It hasn't happened yet because Twitter lacks the will to do it, for whatever reason.

> Removing and preventing the creation of this type of account would not even require "AI". It wouldn't require _Machine Learning_, the kind of filtering approach you've just described would absolutely constitute AI.

Post by aesthesia » Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 2:00 PM UTC

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To think that a company that has failed to create self-driving for nearly a decade could solve "content moderation", one of the hardest problem on the internet that every single of the big companies (who btw hire the best talent) have been struggling with, is truly a shocking statement to me. If all Google and Facebook couldn't solve it, why could a Tesla engineer of all people...

Spamming "$$$ $TSLA to the moon! Get latest tips on my free Discord bit.ly/ocozxc #TWTR #GOOG #AMC #GME $$$" thousands of times for days before suspension is hardly the hardest problem on the Internet Heck, you could even just limit the number of hashtags in a single tweet (say, 2) and fix 95% of Twitter's spam problem without harming legitimate users in any way