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While I recognize that this only one example of what you can do, you can just ask chatgpt to program you a traditional program that does something like this and not have to run a (pretty big/power-intensive/slow on most hardware) 3B/7B parameter model for simple tasks like these.

Yeah it wouldn't be as flexible as a LLM (for example synonyms won't work), but I doubt that for this particular task it'll be that big of problem, and you can ask it to tweak the program in various ways (for example introducing crude spaced-repetition) making it arguably better than the AI solution which takes sometime to prompt engineer and will never be "perfect".

I don't really know how much better fine-tuning makes these models, so I can't think of anything that they can actually be used for where they aren't worse than traditional programs, maybe as an AI in games? for example making them role-play as a historical figure in Civilization 6.

Ever heard of lurkers?

> Or, this person read hackernews for 3 years and never commented (ignoring deleted comments) until just now and only to basically say "no".

Yes, comparing tumblr to twitter was so idiotic I just had to say no.

Tumblr was very North America/Europe centric platform, with most users often posting about very niche topics that most people aren't interested in.

On the other hand, twitter is a pretty global platform, yes a big share of its users is from the US, but japan, brazil, the middle east constitute a huge part of its userbase, so while I wouldn't say that losing the part of twitter that hates elon and his policies won't be a problem (if that ever happens), it's impact won't be as large as tumblr, because no one cares about elon in japan.

The topics discussed on twitter are also far less niche and more current, politicians, celebrities, artists, companies all use it, so it mostly can't experience meltdown by changing its policies, because what's keeping people on twitter is other people, not the policies. Yes this does mean that if those people leave every one will with them, but there is simply no alternative to twitter to leave to right now, mastadon is a joke, discord and reddit are just a different form of social media that wouldn't satisfy twitter users Maybe someone can make a new platform just like twitter? but I doubt that elon's decisions can be that bad.

He mostly has to keep it the same, and he won't lose a single user.

Comparing Twitter to Tumblr is laughable. The same thing that happened to tumblr cannot happen to twitter.