on #bluesky there literally is the guy with the big dial constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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@ireneista @aud @jonny "Embeds adtech" is an easier machine evaluated predicate than "seeks profit".
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@aud @jonny @dalias @dysfun we think the right form of encouragement is less a tool, and more an essay singing their praises (while carefully explaining what went wrong last time around)
if that sounds like a thing you know how to write, please do. we'd love to, and hopefully we eventually will, but it's...... writing is slow
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I’ve been angry about this ever since Microsoft jammed ChatGPT into Bing two years ago… and I thought my anger would fade, or dull, and it hasn’t. It’s still white hot. It’s the digital equivalent of burning the damn library.
They won’t undo it (they can’t, not without becoming led by a totally different group of people) so it’s basically up to people to do it. -
@aud @jonny @dysfun @ireneista Ugh this shit is 2 years old already?
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] well, we’re a little shy of it, but… close : (
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think so too. It’s also unfortunately subject to the same arms race google fought before… well, anyway, even active links can switch from fine to adtech spyware city. The nature of the tech could (and would) change, etc. active curation is definitely necessary no matter what algorithm or criteria are selected for in the beginning; both of the dataset and the selection criteria.
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@aud @jonny @ireneista Google didn't fight the arms race. They enthusiastically embraced content farm garbage out of a mix of profit motive and ideology.
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@aud @jonny @ireneista At every step of the way, they had easy ways to completely delist spam. Their engineers didn't want to and management/legal wouldn't let them if they had wanted to.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] well, yes. There was a balance between those competing ideals for a while, at least, which is really more of what I was referring to.
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@dalias @aud @jonny if you look at what google's descriptions of its ideal sites were in the early 2000s, it's basically a content farm. human-written content about varied subjects, medium-length, with a mix of text and images.
except content farms were barely a thing at the time. they became a big industry because of that decision.
