Conceptually, it’s always supposed to have been something akin to Patreon, where creators can be supported by fans via a subscription model. A combination of lax rules around nudity and probably sheer inertia meant that “creators” ended up being pretty much only sex workers. OF then tried to pivot away from that and we all knows how well that went.

Good advice, but unfortuntlately my org is pretty strict about using unnaproved software and that’s definitely not on the approved list lol

Funnily enough, you used as an example the only new feature I actually like and rely on. I use it for things like PWs for shared service accounts (dont @ me, I know it’s bad practice and our org does have a pw manager but these accounts aren’t managed by it and I am not in control of them)

Also useful for things that are needed temporarily but I dont know how long that ‘temporary’ is going to be.

The crazy thing is that was on HIS OWN PODCAST

Today should have been easy for them tbh. “See? That’s why you should pay us more money to have active infra on our other regions to failover to!”

Except for they didn’t avoid it. They knew it was happening weeks in advance and didn’t do shit to stop it. Just because franchise owners have a bit of autonomy does NOT mean corporate won’t bring the hammer down if they think something will tarnish the brand.

For me it’s because I’m not convinced LLMs are really a stepping stone to any actual AI. They don’t have educational applications imo because there isn’t any way they can separate truth from fiction. They don’t understand the words that they output; they’re just predictive text generators on a huge scale. This isn’t something that can change with better tech either; it’s baked in to the very concept of an LLM. And worse, when they are wrong there’s no way to tell without already knowing the answer to the questions you’re asking. They’re literally just monkeys with typewriters. This is an extremely good article about the kinds of problems I’m taking about.

Nah, they’re resistant to that because their whole engine is fueled with hate. They have persecution and victim complexes. Calling them weird actually seems to affect them because their whole thing is parading around as if they’re the party for “average” aka “normal”_(white) Americans.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

That’s pretty common grammar for news headlines; yes it means ‘and’ and yes it’s annoying/silly. It probably harkens back to print media needing to condense as much as possible to save on space and ink and it just continues because institutional traditions.

Don’t forget Oprah who amplified the idea more than they ever could have done on their own

The scam part comes when you are forced to fight tooth and nail to get money from them even when you are clearly covered

There should be an Empress translator bot