It was an observation, and a criticism. It was massively reported that Shitter has a huge problem with bots, and was very publicly known when company valuations were happening. And, since the handover to Musk, there has been a documented shift to extreme-right-wing content on the site.
I'm not going to beat around the bush. You know as well as I do that X has become the de-facto social media network for extreme-right demographics and the overall quality of content has objectively diminished as a result.
Yes, the quality has gone down, but not much quality can be had in 140 characters in the first place - so it is impressive that it was managed in the first place.
> their users are either racists, bots, or simply garbage people
It is a bit intolerant to go and blanket label a large group of people like that. Sure there are extreme views, but that is what is bound to happen when you have a large amount of users on a platform. So it is on reddit, bluesky, YouTube and what-not. But there are also a lot of milder people.
This!, its amazing how some people want to drag you into their world and have a huge discussion when all you want to do is point out some part of their idea your dont like.
Yep It's some kind of logical fallacy where they try to discredit what you're saying by asserting that you must have some kind of solution in order to justify identifying a problem. It feels as if they try to 'prove' that they are smarter than you are, because you clearly don't have solutions where they clearly do.
openclaw, turn this into a broadway production, book me two front row seats, hire an escort..... brunette, 28, slim waist, sweet face, hates comedy and AI
A very small percentage of people know how to set up a cronjob.
They can now combine cronjobs and LLMs with a single human sentence.
This is huge for normies.
Not so much if you already had strong development skills.
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But you are correct in the assessment that people who don't know better will use it to do simple things that could be done millions of times more efficiently..
I made a chatbot at my company where you can chat with each individual client's data that we work with..
My manager tested it by asking it to find a rate (divide this company number by that company number), for like a dozen companies, one by one..
He would have saved time looking at the table it gets its data from, using a calculator.
You know, building infrastructure to hook to some API or to dig through email or whatever-- it's a pain. And it's gotten harder. My old pile of procmail rules + spamassassin wouldn't work for the task anymore. Maintaining todos in text files has its high points and low points. And I have to be the person to notice patterns and do things myself.
Having some kind of agent as an assistant to do stuff, and not having to manage brittle infrastructure myself, sounds appealing. Accessibility from my phone through iMessage: ditto.
I haven't used it yet, but it's definitely captured my interest.
> He would have saved time looking at the table it gets its data from, using a calculator.
The hard thing is always remembering where that table is and restoring context. Big stuff is still often better done without an intermediary; being able to lob a question to an agent and maybe get an answer is huge.
If it’s for normies then why is the open source hardish-to-use self-hosted version of this the thing that’s becoming popular? Or is there enough normies willing to jump through hoops for this?
Because the early adopters are the nerds that will discover how to exploit it, the popularity will make others want to use it, and the normies will take the easy route it gives them since self hosting is hard for them.
I don't understand why, but I've seen it enough to start questioning myself...
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