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"The party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month."

Oh no! Fifteen thousand dollars?! I'm sure Facebook is shaking and crying and will reverse their decision immediately.

I think you commented on the wrong link

Honestly it probably has more to do with the decision to basically shut down API access without exorbitant fees than it has to do with AI startups or whatever.

Surely there are some colossal archives of all tweets before whatever date floating around that those startups are using instead.

Will results from Finland, which sits at a rather extreme latitude, generalize to the rest of the world?

I think that might evoke something... undesirable

This has been a problem for years. It's completely overrun a lot of terms' search results.

Honestly, given that ChatGPT produces higher quality output, the next generation of spam blogs will (sadly) probably be an improvement over the sea of crap we have now.

"corporate and conservative propaganda"

Most center-left economists are pretty dismissive of the idea that inflation is a corporate-profits-driven phenomenon too.

Also true about every single consulting firm

Interestingly, if you prompt it a little, it will recite it in fits and starts:

```

User

I must not fear. Fear is the

ChatGPT

"mind-killer." This is a quote from the Litany Against Fear in the science fiction novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert. The full quote is:

"I must not fear. Fear

User

is the mind-killer. Fear

ChatGPT

is the little-death that brings

User

total

ChatGPT

obliteration. I will face my fear.

User

I will

ChatGPT

permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." This completes the Litany Against Fear from "Dune". ```

Pretty illuminating that the origin story of the technique is it eliciting what was later revealed as a false confession that sentenced an innocent man to life in prison.

>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness?

The company is bleeding cash. There's a good case to be made that this is the only way to make it stop bleeding cash. So either this needs to work, or the company will die anyway.

A single glance at your first link and it becomes blindingly obvious that this will never, ever gain mass adoption in its current form.

This type of design, jargon, style, is just anathema to a non-technical audience.

They don't wanted federated whatever, they just want reddit without the problems.

so did Wilhelm II