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   brent (brentm@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 01:21:20 JST brent

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs sites like reddit that aggressively promote human-generated and human-curated content will keep getting more valuable. There seems to be a ML/AI race to the bottom that is a bit confusing.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 01:41:01 JST GNU Too

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     @thomasfuchs is that what's going on? I was searchign for something obscure on Bing the other day, and each page of the search results had the same awful content on it.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 01:41:59 JST GNU Too

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     @brentm @thomasfuchs I would hope so, but I'd want to make sure services like lemmy get support so when reddit goes off the deep end there will be something else.
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     brent (brentm@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 01:47:21 JST brent

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     • GNU Too

     @gnu2 I'll have to try out lemmy. It wasn't on my radar. I hope open networks win. Reddit is both wonderful and terrible. The problem with social stuff is that the more popular a service gets the more incentive there is to poison it with attention-seeking nonsense. I feel like Reddit is on the edge of a wave of monetization that might ruin any value.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 01:56:49 JST GNU Too

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     @brentm https://lemmy.ml is the largest one ; if you want one that has fewer other instances blocked, and is blocked by fewer, I'd recommend https://links.hackliberty.org/ feel free to follow me from anywhere on the fediverse https://lemmy.ca/u/n7gifmdn
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     Paul Souders (axoplasm@pdx.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 02:06:21 JST Paul Souders

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs SEO/ML thinking is polluting a zillion things

     I recently went through a similar both-sides-at-once arms race when hiring for a tech position. 99% of the resumés were like 10 pages long & filled with unreadable keyword spam. Why?

     Recruiters: buried under resumés, must use ML to thin the stack

     Applicants: recruiters using ML to cull resumés, to make first cut must fill resumé with keyword spam

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 03:10:19 JST GNU Too

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     @brentm lemmy isn't for everyone though. A lot of people I know left reddit because of increases in censorship over the last few years. Lemmy actually has censorship built into their code (like hardcoded list of words that can't be posted that is ever increasing in size) there was a fork (deny?) that attempted to keep that out, but the dev working on it highly recommend forking his code and maintaining yourself, rather than counting on him.
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     Boswell (jamesboswell@seocommunity.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 05:18:02 JST Boswell

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Noone will trust the crappy uncited results of a bot

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     Joe Lanman (joelanman@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 05:58:27 JST Joe Lanman

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs With its overwhelming influence via search, Google has led us directly to current web. Most quality content behind paywalls, leaving weird content farms full of deceptive patterns. Things could have been different

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     Badscrew (badscrew@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 17:22:03 JST Badscrew

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs would be fun to see yahoo coming back with their manually curated link pages

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     Horst Albermann 🇪🇺🇩🇪 (h_albermann@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2023 01:31:23 JST Horst Albermann 🇪🇺🇩🇪

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Salesforce will integrate ChatGPT to create outgoing messages and summarize incoming ones. https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/chatgpt-app-for-slack/

     The whole thing only makes sense if ChatGPT is reserved for enterprises. With equality of arms the whole thing is just absurd ?