An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers' platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed Bluesky: @justsmudge , @ben-esse , and @davidmbarnett Mastodon: @Cli...
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times
all it took was this prompt Mastodon: @aphyr@woof.group : The authors' web site for that LLM corpus-extraction attack is nicely done, too: https://not-just-memorization.github.io / ... Rachel Rawlings...
An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint
Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let Goodreads languish with limited resources while mining the book review site for user-generated data
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let the book review site languish with limited resources while mining it for user-generated data
A prominent author's decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads's power in publishing … Mastodon: @freemancrouch@mastodon.social and @SDZ@mstdn.so...
A look at review-bombing campaigns on Goodreads that can derail a book's publication long before its release, frustrating both new and established authors
New York Times :
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph
Sarah Manavis / New Statesman :
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph
On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind.
Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don't help avid readers
Despite Amazon's innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless Tweets: @patchworkbunny , @css , @crapshoot101 , @basche42 , @mckinneykelsey , @mka_ultra , @m...