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Not the provider per se, but there have been several documented attempts to rewrite Wikipedia around historical and geopolitical topics. One of the reasons for this is Wikipedia feeds the chatbots.

Fastmail is excellent. They haven’t banned AI but their approach (set up MCP so AI power users can pull in their email data) is a lot more thoughtful and entirely nonintrusive so far.

Correct. The public is over sparkle buttons and bad search results.

The future of AI integrations need to be subtle, useful, and not overpromise but add a big “AI makes mistakes not our fault” label on it.

In cooking, maybe that looks like a discovery tool. It should also be possible to tag the recipe library to link back to videos of techniques. There’s plenty of cool stuff that makes sense without needing to scream “we made it AI!”

Something similar has been going on in Washington, DC, but ours is organic. Someone fires up a “teen takeover” to a popular area, it floods with kids 99% of which are just there to harmless goof off and see their friends, and of course a small group of jerks starts a fight with no regard for the people around them.

The city council is treating this like a curfew issue. The problem isn’t the kids, it’s the algorithm. But nobody seems to have any power to bang on TikTok’s door and tell them to cut it out.

And at the pace OP seems to be going, nobody is pausing for long enough to think about whether the 50 PRs they just YOLO’d even make sense.

That will end well.

I'm not so sure.

I make a point to own my own books. Even if I first read them as ebooks or audiobooks, if I want to keep it forever I'll pick up a used copy (they're cheap).

I've considered the same for film. The only things I looked up that are just completely unavailable are Streaming Original series. Maybe this has to do with the sort of library I'd want to keep, but I don't think so.

Yes. And no person would have suggested this before they were trying to bend over backwards to prove LLMs are just like people.

That’s one of the more interesting personal apps I’ve heard about in a while. Can I ask how you have it set up and what you like about it?

The problem is the math doesn’t work. Apple News is the closest thing to a real version of this, but no publication can survive on that alone.

Similar efforts never hit critical mass.

I have thoughts on what could work but that’s a longer topic for another day.

You’re forgetting this had never been done before.

This is just a more asinine version of Great Man Theory, but in this case the great men are some very confident futurist dudes writing comments on the internet.

There’s a good number of nuclear power plants and nuclear submarines in operation, so yes, that’s technically true.

Oh yeah. I discovered this back in February. Faster and cheaper is better, because faster means you can focus.

Frenetic multitasking is for suckers.

Sounds like a culture problem. I’ve never had a team I lead not give a shit. Even if the project is dumb (some projects are dumb), there’s enough pride in competence and desire not to dump garbage on the people around you to ensure they at least want to try.

No.

Because it’s a bad faith argument that presupposes integrating someone else’s work into your algorithm is equivalent to me reading a book.

Your rule would be the right way to do all this. You could even have a mechanical royalty that applies by default where you can train on anything that hasn’t set rules and a preset rate.

Yes. It’s called the ELIZA Effect. It’s fascinating, and arguably the most dangerous thing about these models given how many people it seems to affect.

I understand why they built this. They probably should and this is probably the right way to do it.

And also yes, I’ve tried Dia and OpenAI’s thing and I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do with the feature.

And then it dawns on me what I really want is a modernized bookmarks system…

Uh huh.

It can’t be a coincidence that all the targets have been tech services that are likely to engage with them after the fact.

Had this gone after a bank or a government agency someone would be going to jail.

Yes. They will reach an agreement not to pursue RSI for “safety.” That RSI is utter nonsense in the first place will go unnoticed.

Yep. And the kicker is they are genuinely confused when all this lands badly.

Out of curiosity what book did you get burned on?

Wait, really?

As best I can tell, the problem is contained to kindle self publishing and the like, which were always unfiltered. And we buy plenty of new books.

I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media.

There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me.

I don’t think you could have made a similar argument about heavy trash tv watchers. They may have had less to talk about, you may have found them less interesting, but it didn’t literally alter their personalities.

We have a big problem.

Sure. But what’s the technical way or meet that requirement? Is there a specific method or is it just that they can but they don’t care because there’s no law?

Interesting. What ways? Suppose I wanted to call the governor and say “I have an answer to how to regulate these that solves the noise problem” what would we be asking for?

They’re not. You would see this with earlier models where after running too long (too much context) they’d start to derail. In a chatbot you’d give up. But these loops just keep going. Given they’re now reading and writing from the same place this can corrupt the other programs’ context as well.

Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.

Yep. This is my policy. Use whatever tools however they serve you, the standards do not change.

If someone makes a sloppy 100,000 line PR in a day the problem is not whether it was generated by Claude or frantically written using VIM and a mechanical keyboard.

It already happened. For a lot of people, social media has been replaced entirely by group chat.