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saarth

@ Saarth @lemmy.world

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  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

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  • Companies have already been SEOing LLMs for a few months now. There are companies who have a panel of participants who are willing to share their data, and this is then used to estimate what people might be searching on LLMs and now to optimise content so that it shows up on responses across LLMs.

    Ads was the logical direction for LLMs and has always been the only pathway to any substantial revenue.

  • Double standards or something, I don't know...

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  • Hamas might be doing terrible things, but they are also fighting a disproportionate war, and it's not like Israel is respecting any of the human rights conventions either.

    And in Ukraine, the Ukrainian army is fighting for freedom from invaders and fighting a disproportionate war too, and are committing war crimes like torture of prisons or targeting of energy infrastructure just like Russia is doing.

    War is always messy. To paint Hamas as exceptionally evil is unfair and probably an outcome of racial bias.

  • Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Owns All The IMAX Screens for an Unprecedented Month

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  • I am convinced Nolan is basically just a 'influencer' paid by Imax to keep Imax alive.

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    New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

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  • It's only going to go up. Look at how revenues are increasing, it's basically ad and PR money.

  • Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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  • They can finally get rid of McKinsey and blame it on cheaper and faster trendy butthole logo of the month.

  • The European Union is becoming the world’s “quality of life” superpower

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  • US has high GDP and GDP per capita only because of over inflated tech & finance valuations and PE firms dumping more and more money into these industries. It's not sustainable.

    Outside of the US, West and North Europe has pretty high GDP per capita and I don't see the point in chasing high growth numbers.

  • Bosses really want AI to work, because they really, really want to fire you.

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  • Our team has been working on implementing AI across functions in our company. And I was told me that the CEO wants to eliminate jobs and hence these AI implementations need to succeed.

    PS: So far they're not succeeding.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • I see a lot of conversations of people mentioning how expensive things have gotten, yet we see in sales data that our expensive products sell more (this is also due to the fact that more ad dollars are spent on higher margin products) but try and buy cheaper alternatives whenever you can.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • I can tell you from the perspective of someone working in consumer insights for a consumer company, sales and retail data is far more important and influences decisions way more.

    So I'd say put your money where your mouth is. If you don't like certain companies or brands stop buying their products. If you think groceries are getting expensive buy cheaper alternatives or private labels. You can do this with a lot of non-food grocery items. Private label is almost always cheaper and you get pretty much the same shit as global brands.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • There isn't much to tell. We gather conversations and analyse it to understand consumer behaviour, trends, campaign performance etc.

    If you don't want your data showing up in social listening tools, make your social accounts as private as possible.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • I wish lmao. But there are tons of data companies selling all kinds of data on people to whoever will pay them for it. Me working for identifying trends or what flavour of green tea is popular are less harmful use cases.

    What we need is regulation to reign in big tech. These API licenses are expensive and I suspect is a big reason why Reddit ended free data sharing (which led to death of third party reddit clients).

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • I think coming out of an MBA, this is one of the less harmful jobs. I'd rather not be in consulting or investment banking or sales or big tech.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • I've been working mostly on the analysis side of things, currently I do this for a consumer goods company.

    And yes I do it to make a living. Got hired as an analyst in this field out of MBA and stayed in this. Also being chronically online and familiar with social networks helped.

  • Anon thinks it's over

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  • Spotify is playing AI music and they're also inserting AI generated songs into playlists without informing the user. I was getting AI generated music in my blues and jazz playlists, and I didn't even know until I reverse searched the artist.

  • Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.

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  • There are dedicated tools, called Social Listening tools that do just these. Some examples are Brandwatch, Sprinklr, Talkwalker and Meltwater.

    Not just Palantir, anyone and everyone is using these tools. From consumer companies to investment banks to your favourite content creator is using some kind of social listening to stay on top of trends and understand how you behave.

    Reddit and Twitter are two social platforms that provide the most data openly and freely, and in reddit's case you can get a lot of historical data without extra cost.

    Your favourite candle brand, and your favourite outdoor clothing company and protein shake company is part of your favourite reddit community listening to what you're talking about. They know if you like energy drinks, you might light heavily scented bath soaps too.

    Deleted posts show up on these platforms quite often but when you click on them to go to reddit or twitter you'll get a not found or deleted page.

    PS: I've been working in social listening for last 8 years.

  • Anon thinks it's over

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  • I stopped using Spotify exactly for this reason. Plex it is.

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • This stinks of (rotten) meat lobby.

    I hope the meat substitute industry comes up with some kind of 'it's not meat' marketing campaign to counter this.

  • Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

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  • If companies gonna push AI, I am gonna use AI. It's on the company infosec to ensure my workarounds dont work.

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    it's the season

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  • As the number of people benefitting from the current economic system continues to shrink, the number of people who will benefit from the collapse of the economic system will keep growing.

    Here's to hoping that its sooner rather than later.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • There are a lot of independent creators out there too.