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Mike

@mikehos3
14 posts
2024-05-21
Sam Altman is the kind of coworker that takes your lunch from the office fridge that you have clearly labeled with your name.
2024-05-21 View on X
NBC News

Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers

The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

2024-04-15
I will have to add this to the reading list.  The catch-up feature is what I wish a lot of social media apps prioritized but unfortunately people have trouble drawing a straight line between non-algorithmic feed and bottom-line and mass adoption.
2024-04-15 View on X
augment

An experiment to see how a Threads feed would work on Mastodon, using lists and testing third-party clients, which shows the bright future of the fediverse

2024-04-14
I will have to add this to the reading list.  The catch-up feature is what I wish a lot of social media apps prioritized but unfortunately people have trouble drawing a straight line between non-algorithmic feed and bottom-line and mass adoption.
2024-04-14 View on X
augment

An experiment to see how a Threads feed would work on Mastodon, using lists and testing third-party clients, which shows the bright future of the fediverse

This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences …

2024-02-17
When you forget the person who is responsible for a product actually uses it.  [Photo of Adam Mosseri: “I heard someone is talking shit!"]
2024-02-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta is matching existing fact checks to “near-identical content on Threads”, and says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Threads: @mikehos3 , @vintagemillennial81 , @renee.diresta , @culturecrave , @mattnavarra , @mattnavarra , and @cformiles Threads: Mike / @mikehos3 : Wh...

2023-12-31
Dear @google, All the major AI players now have a stand-alone LLM prompting app.  An app is low friction way to acquire new users and retain them.  I know you are aware of the incoming disruption but you need to do better if you are serious about this. …
2023-12-31 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch

Screenshots  —  Improve Your Productivity with Copilot-Your AI-Powered Chat Assistant Thurrott : Microsoft Copilot Comes to iPhone and iPad Emily Price / PCMag : Microsoft's Copilo...

2023-12-30
Dear @google, All the major AI players now have a stand-alone LLM prompting app.  An app is low friction way to acquire new users and retain them.  I know you are aware of the incoming disruption but you need to do better if you are serious about this. …
2023-12-30 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch

Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.

2023-12-16
This exclusivity and exclusionary mindset is reminiscent of behvior displayed by admins in Web 1.0 or even IRC or Usenet.  The fabric of Internet has changed, people want inclusion and to be a part of discussion.  I can't help but to think Bluesky's argument for being invite-only is only an elitist thing. …
2023-12-16 View on X
The Verge

Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability

The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’

2023-11-21
Emmett Shear is a terrible person and he already disgusts me.
2023-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI's new interim CEO Emmett Shear has made some head-turning posts on X, from slowing down AI development to theories about women having rape fantasies

and likened working for Microsoft to selling his soul Matthew Loh / Business Insider : Both the CEO of OpenAI and the biggest investor of OpenAI still don't seem to know why Sam Al...

Emmett Shear is a terrible person and he already disgusts me.
2023-11-21 View on X
The Information

Source: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about a potential merger as part of an effort to persuade Amodei to replace Sam Altman as CEO

OpenAI's board of directors approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of rival large-language model developer Anthropic …

2023-11-16
One less reason for people who constantly complain to complain about a missing feature: hashtags.  In Australia though.  I hope search improvements are coming up soon too.  Being able to search by author would be life changing.
2023-11-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Threads tests tags, which categorizes and links posts with a hashtag but without showing the # symbol, initially in Australia and “soon” in other countries

Instagram's Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways and today it's adding one more feature that's …

2023-10-24
The more people raise awareness about this, the more Meta gets incentived to improve on this.  I also would like to have the option to break the linkage between my Instagram and Threads accounts.
2023-10-24 View on X
Engadget

Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option

The company said it's “listening to feedback” about the feature.  —  Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics …

2023-09-08
It's nice to get an inside look from @0xjessel and @zahanm, looking forward to reading it
2023-09-08 View on X
The Pragmatic Engineer

Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more

The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week.  How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?

2023-09-02
Gotta love Meta and Google standing up to bullies.  Forcing big tech companies to bail out news publishers for dwindling public interest in news is clearly not the answer.  But like you said this is not based on logic, systemic problems do not have a straight line answer.
2023-09-02 View on X
Reuters

Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news

2023-08-05
I feel like if there is anything we learned from the zero interest phenomenon is that job security is a myth.
2023-08-05 View on X
Reuters

To comply with the EU's DSA, TikTok plans to let users turn off personalized recommendations in For You, remove targeted ads for users aged 13 to 17, and more

Martin Coulter / Reuters :