“The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT”
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“The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT”
The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot
After relaunching GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT in 2019, the site grew to a readership of more than 20 million a month, … Continue reading "The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot"
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You basically can't count on any of the traffic coming from Google or Facebook and most media companies, even one that are frugally run, have a hard time surviving on what's left
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Baldur Bjarnasonreplied to Baldur Bjarnason last edited by
Digging a little bit more into this and found the following exchange to be striking
Specifically this:
> Literally Danny said he sat with an engineer team with examples of people in the room and said why aren't they showing up and they did their "debugging process" and couldn't figure it out.
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Baldur Bjarnasonreplied to Baldur Bjarnason last edited by
The "algorithm" seems to have become a black box even Google engineers can't figure out
The fact that over a year ago ML experts at Google who have since left warned that LLMs should be avoided because they made products chaotic and hard to control seems relevant
As is the fact that around the same time others also warned that one common consequence of mass layoffs is they tend to turn internal systems into black boxes because everybody with a deep understanding of them has left
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@baldur This is so, so depressing.
