Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
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Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
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Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#2Normally I'd say... "They'd better write it in the bylaws that Mozilla isn't allowed to buy any more companies" but a system for identifying fake content on the web might (unlike all the other Mozilla acquisitions such as the thoroughly pizzled Pocket) improve the web browsing experience.
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#3I think this is a great acquisition, but I'm curious where this may give Mozilla an advantage. Do they plan on baking this into Firefox, and if so, to what degree are we willing to let the browser govern the content?
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#4I used Fakespot a few years ago. It seemed to work well at that time. I switched computers and didn't go back to it (probably out of laziness).
Does the HN community still view it as a trusted source to make better buying decisions?
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#5Wow, Mozilla is acquiring a side-project that's actually useful? Color me pleased. Beats wasting time on an a commodity VPN service.
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#7I think this is a great acquisition, but I'm curious where this may give Mozilla an advantage. Do they plan on baking this into Firefox, and if so, to what degree are we willing to let the browser govern the content?
It feels like this business has no real "moat." But I think for once that's not really a problem: I would hope Google decides they need to add comparable functionality to a browser!
And then maybe it can begin expanding for more general use... detecting likelihood of any content being artificial... hmm I'm scared again.
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> Sorry about being pedantic, but is no such thing as fake content, there is only more content.
This isn't pedantic, it's ignoring context: In context, "Fake" clearly means that the so-called review wasn't written by a human who had used the product. Given what a review is, and what purpose we expect reviews to serve, so-called "reviews" written by a language model are clearly fake, just like a non-driveable toy car is a fake car.
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#9Wow, Mozilla is acquiring a side-project that's actually useful? Color me pleased. Beats wasting time on an a commodity VPN service.
Their VPN is just reselling someone else's service, minimal effort invested while opening a mainstream service that actually provides an income stream. Seems like a solid strategy to me.
Re: Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
#10I think this is a great acquisition, but I'm curious where this may give Mozilla an advantage. Do they plan on baking this into Firefox, and if so, to what degree are we willing to let the browser govern the content?
It feels like this business has no real "moat." But I think for once that's not really a problem: I would hope Google decides they need to add comparable functionality to a browser! And then maybe it can begin expanding for more general use... detecting likelihood of any content being artificial... hmm I'm scared again.
I imagine the moat is an ML model of inauthentic reviews. Getting training data for known inauthentic and known authentic reviews is difficult.