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The main chatbots are taking the engagement-maxing playbook of Facebook and jamming it into the most intimate personal interactions in our lives. The top 4 chatbots today are led by people who have been Facebook execs. Op...
...engagement maximizing, Meta. OpenAI will become an even more intense version of Facebook. The honed engagement-maximizing playbook of Facebook, multiplied by the superhuman power of LLMs. Terrifying!
...any entity that has that power will emergently become a worse actor over time." Facebook went from a goal of "meaningful connection with people you care about", but over time it became about engagement because it had to, to compete agains...
... this digital collateral idea even harder, having hosts and guests attach their Facebook profiles.
...system on top of a closed one. Imagine creating an open ecosystem on top of the Facebook API that is fundamentally enabled by it. At any point though the powers that be at Facebook could say, "you know, if we were to hit this one button, ...
...if that's not true? Everyone's implicitly treating LLM providers like Google or Facebook: an end-user aggregator that then gets significant leverage. This is partly because every LLM provider makes available an API, but also has a 1P serv...
...tiality and integrity of information as it flows through a graph of operations. Facebook just shared that they use it as a fundamental concept underpinning their internal data privacy aware infrastructure. Contextual flow control is an ap...
...ake sense of the social information, because the design variance overwhelms it. Facebook was on tight rails... but made the social part pop, because all that was different was the person's social information.
...ost without question the vision in your head is an app. Perhaps DuoLingo. Maybe Facebook. I think this is a shame! Apps are little non-composable monoliths that are only allowed to exist if Apple says they may exist. Software is so much b...
...ion / extraction phase. 2008 was when the iPhone aggregator got going, and when Facebook's aggregator had become a gravity well.
...em. It's been an absolutely massive tectonic shift that has harmed players like Facebook... but more importantly made a massive number of long-tail companies simply non-viable anymore. It's a FUD-able topic: one that nearly everyone who h...