Ryan Broderick
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Their wordsIt may also explain why these two companies don't constantly talk about AI causing the end of world, unlike Anthropic or OpenAI. You probably don't have to resort to such gauche effective altruist catastrophizing if you have pre-existing non-AI users to market to.
↗Is Meta's Muse assistant actually popular?garbageday.email 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut as long as the download number looks healthy and the app stays at the top of download charts, then Meta can keep burning cash on data centers. The hype train keeps on running.
↗Is Meta's Muse assistant actually popular?garbageday.email 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI've long thought of Meta as a rogue state and they will continue to operate like one until they are smashed to pieces by regulators (if we ever have those again) or driven into bankruptcy if the AI bubble pops in a very specific way.
↗Meta just accidentally confirmed it's blocking Claudegarbageday.email 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe world's biggest tech companies this year quietly entered into a winner-takes-all battle royal for the future of the internet. They all want their AI to be the one that unravels everyone else's moat.
↗Meta just accidentally confirmed it's blocking Claudegarbageday.email 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBaby, no one's going to need to pay for your MCP if everyone else's MCPs get good enough. They'll just copy your whole app and connect it directly to their own AI agent.
↗Meta just accidentally confirmed it's blocking Claudegarbageday.email 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt turns out the 2020 crypto boom did fundamentally change the way money worked on the internet, just not in the way its biggest evangelists had hoped. Instead of convincing the general population to embrace Bitcoin and blockchains, it created a new form of grifter capitalism that is spreading across social media
↗No one actually likes AI influencersgarbageday.email 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut, also, these accounts aren't actually popular once the novelty wears off.
↗No one actually likes AI influencersgarbageday.email 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd, most troubling of all, it does seem like Mosseri is correct here. It's very likely major tech platforms have already missed the chance to do anything about this.
↗'A genius OnlyFans marketing hack'garbageday.email 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd so we are now almost assuredly careening towards a reckoning with not just AI content, but, I assume, social media, in general.
↗'A genius OnlyFans marketing hack'garbageday.email 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWe might be able to vote them out temporarily, but unless we disrupt the platforms and networks that helped put them there in the first place, we'll never be free of them.
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Their wordsA hit like "Choosin' Texas" is not just a case of Spotify playlists inventing a pop song out of thin air. The record labels, radio stations, and TV channels of the old world devolved into fiefdoms of the already established and already famous
↗Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hitgarbageday.email 1st of 2 in this piece
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A song that stays at number one for months is a sign the music system is broken, not healthy
Their wordsBut at a certain point, that level of domination doesn't look like a good thing anymore. It means you aren't competing against anyone else. It means the entire system might be broken.
↗Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hitgarbageday.email 2nd of 2 in this piece
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The general public may not want to be a manager of AI agents the way Silicon Valley executives do.
chat interfacesAI agentsSilicon Valley
Their wordsSilicon Valley executives may love over-optimizing their lives and running chatbots like a team of tireless assistants, but I'm just not convinced the general public wants to be a manager.
↗Am I too boring to need an AI agent?garbageday.email 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThere are a whole lot of people experiencing that magic moment that I felt back in January, which means there's going to be a whole lot of people who learn how limited this tech still is or how catastrophically it can go wrong.
↗Am I too boring to need an AI agent?garbageday.email 2nd of 2 in this piece