2024-01-12
there seems to be a very large market for haphazard summaries of text (the core strength of LLMs). this effect has been, interestingly, created by Microsoft in the 90s with their ‘good-enough’ software and mobster-like strategies. The same Microsoft than now funds OpenAi [embedded post]
Bloomberg
OpenAI has signed up 260 enterprise customers with 150K+ employees combined for the corporate version of ChatGPT, barely four months after launching the product
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :
2023-06-25
messages on mastodon tend to be too elaborate. as well as some very tone-deaf ui choices
Café Lob-On
The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration that started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture, decentralization making the UX worse, more
I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey - I'm just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here …