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Joined October 2021
Unpopular Front is going on vacation! But I will be streaming live later today with @readmaxread. https://t.co/4oTtqeySdE
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And Things to Tide You Over
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New York magazine is the last great magazine because of the incredible work its staff puts in week after week. They deserve to be paid fairly!
If you love @NYMag and the work that @NYMagUnion does to make it, join our friends like Julia Fox, @theannadelvey & @bejohnce and add your name to our pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: https://t.co/jqD9zCrqIF
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This week, @NYMag published a very good feature story on low-grade AI-created content taking over the Internet and making it worse. It’s about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop: https://t.co/b6wc8r169l
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A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
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This is a great feature by @readmaxread in the new issue of @NYMag about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop:
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A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Reddit revolts. Plus: @readmaxread joins to to discuss what we can learn from Mr. Beast. And we debate whether trust and safety was a ZIRP
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Social platforms are entering a strange and uncertain future.
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This week on Hard Fork: • What's fueling the Reddit revolt? • Max Read on MrBeast • Was trust and safety a zero-interest-rate phenomenon? https://t.co/qiRfYWkAcJ
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Social platforms are entering a strange and uncertain future.
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IMO the piece pairs well with my interview with TikTok Baby Gronk specialist "H00pify" in that both are about how Zoomer platform natives understand what they're doing and how it relates to sincerity https://t.co/2uYe8iNTP4
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I wrote about MrBeast's demonic/genius charity-audience growth flywheel for the New York Times Magazine https://t.co/vwxk3pGQBJ
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Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, has become a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism. Why do so many people think he’s evil?
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I don’t believe that the air quality is unhealthy bc I think smoking is good for you
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max's substack, https://t.co/qyDSsXRvFI, is the best ongoing commentary for AI out there right now. Always finds something interesting and mostly avoids the "are we doomed" or "is this bullshit" binary
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New ep! This week, we welcome back our friend @readmaxread for an anniversary chat. We unpack the labor and education dimensions of of A.I. ascendancy and get Max’s inside perspective on the WGA strike. https://t.co/46TuBmiQFr
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screenshots from this post, which i get the sense will have a long shelf life! https://t.co/YpErIJD9Q5
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increasingly feels like "opposing sam altman's preferences" is the best heuristic for dealing with a.i. on a policy level, and probably with engaging it with it "philosophically" too
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Breaking: 350+ leading AI researchers (including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind) have signed a remarkable statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction,” and comparing it to pandemics and nuclear weapons.
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This is a really good idea. Someone should do this.
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Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful whom you offend.
This review of the new Ben Smith book on 2010s era of Buzzfeed and Gawker makes me all the more confident that a Mad Men-esque highbrow drama set in an early 2010s digital media company released in the 2030s could be A+. https://t.co/qYKDkL5VLk
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"Given this state of affairs it’s hard not to feel like 'Traffic' is making an inadvertent but compelling case that Gawker and BuzzFeed were, in the grand scheme of things, not particularly important." By @readmaxread
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Ben Smith's "Traffic," about the early battle for supremacy between BuzzFeed and Gawker, sheds fresh light on the fate of digital news companies.
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"Peretti messaged often with Zuckerberg and made 'a habit of cultivating the mid-senior-level Facebook employees'... which meant he had some say in the sorting mechanisms that could bestow publishers with life-changing amounts of traffic."
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Ben Smith's "Traffic," about the early battle for supremacy between BuzzFeed and Gawker, sheds fresh light on the fate of digital news companies.
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"There is lots of delusion in this book. There is also a little bit of rivalry. But I have to be honest. I do not think there are any geniuses."
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Ben Smith's "Traffic," about the early battle for supremacy between BuzzFeed and Gawker, sheds fresh light on the fate of digital news companies.
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Read Max is proud to be at the forefront of decadal studies for the 21st century https://t.co/is2fWguCZc
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