here comes the pivot to ads

[davemwilburn@infosec.exchange]

@Viss I'm doubtful. They've had plenty of scandals already, and they mostly didn't result in huge influxes of new Fedi users.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@DaveMWilburn ive seen trivially half a dozen huge waves of people who fall off bsky and come here. some go back again, but there's always a 'wave'

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@DaveMWilburn @Viss

[rawrmonstar@social.vivaldi.net]

@Viss they can already do that for free, can't they?

[viss@mastodon.social]

@rawrmonstar im not sure how interacting with any frontier model at that scale could be free - if they are training their own, then its tens of millions in spend on gear to do it in-house. if theyre using the cloud, then its 5x that in cloud costs. if they are training a frontier model, then that company will probably eat the cost, but its still a shitload of engineering heavy lift to make it happen

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@Viss @catsalad I never understood why Jay was CEO. She should have been CTO. Wasn’t the whole software architecture pretty much her design?

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@Viss hey don't forget PII!

[autisticplushy@lgbtqia.space]

@Viss do do do do

[viss@mastodon.social]

@quinn oh totally. option B is that they just hoover up absolutely everything on the platform and feed it in its entirety to an llm and get paid for it that way

[viss@mastodon.social]

@ramsey @catsalad zero clue. back when i was on bsky, for the short period i used it, none of their staff would ever reply to me or respond to me in any way - which made it all the more delicious every time they fell on their faces from problems twitter solved ten years ago that i could have trivially helped them with.

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@Viss @catsalad I never understood that, either. It was supposedly created as a skunkworks project within Twitter, so why the hell have they acted like they didn't have 15+ years of experience to draw from?

[rawrmonstar@social.vivaldi.net]

@Viss I meant you can access the BlueSky firehouse without a partnership with them can't you? Why would an AI company pay BlueSky when they don't need to?

[viss@mastodon.social]

@rawrmonstar oh, i see. no idea then, im just speculating. but with a vc in charge as the ceo, you can bet there's gonna be some big announcement coming

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@Viss why not also good ol fashioned targeted ads an Algo manipulation too?

[viss@mastodon.social]

@quinn oh sure, like those cerveza crystal commercials in chile - where they hack the ad right into the movie

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@Viss just in time for midterms

[pink_cyberdragon@tsukihi.me]

@joy @Viss this is the interim CEO while they look for a CEO

[bhhaskin@social.bitsofsimplicity.com]

@Viss rug pull time!