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0 pointsignoramous2y ago0 comments

Instagram itself was Twitter but for photos. It makes sense that they'd wedge Threads as Instagram but for text.

I believe, the primary catalyst for Meta to build Threads is competing with Google and Microsoft on LLMs. Google Groups and GMail have nice and clean conversational data, while Microsoft has that via LinkedIn (and to an extent, GitHub). Short of Facebook and Messenger, Meta has to license from Twitter and Reddit, but might as well try their luck with Threads instead.

I believe they will eventually change WhatsApp's privacy policy to mine the data in there, as well, with the help of "differential privacy" or something, like Apple. Mark is too smart to not to.

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techdragon2y ago

It’s hilarious to think of LinkedIn as useful conversational data for an LLM… LinkedIn content… The majority of direct messaging is recruiting spam and almost the entirety of the public posts and replies are so vapid, inane, fake and performative as to be borderline damaging to the mental health of anyone that doesn’t realise it’s all performative bullshit, a business positivism LARP or MUD wrapped in a kayfabe of having anything to do with real business people doing business things… the quality of a model trained on that dataset would be… horrific.

TRiG_Ireland2y ago

This is why everyone should be following Hank Green on LinkedIn.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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techdragon2y ago

TRiG_Ireland2y ago

This is why everyone should be following Hank Green on LinkedIn.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse