Pinterest says it is developing tools to label AI-generated or AI-altered content on its platform, amid an influx of AI slop from SEO spammers
“Is this platform dead?” — Pinterest, the web's de facto mood board, has long been one of the best places for finding and sharing aspirational …
Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, and slop arrived
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here's a review of things we figured …
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal Google Search API documentation, including many claims that seem to contradict Google's public statements
On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
X added five-second delays, some now removed, on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Musk attacks
The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times …
Reddit's API pricing changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of the site's data, an upcoming IPO, and third-party apps generating no revenue for the company
As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site's self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it — I.
Over 7,000 subreddits have gone private or read-only to protest Reddit's API pricing changes; the site experienced issues for about two hours on June 12
Reddark: thousands of subreddits are going dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9
The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark …
Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40%
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette :
Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40%
Twitter - already a small source of clicks for publishers - has further declined in importance as a traffic referrer in recent years. Tweets: @samanthatwenty , @mattnavarra , @rich...
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend
For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
How Elon Musk's Twitter usage and stewardship is making him toxic for many Tesla customers and shareholders at a time when the company badly needs new business
Sources: Elon Musk's team has been exploring selling up to $3B in potential new Twitter shares to help repay some of the $13B in debt tacked on for the buyout
Wall Street Journal :
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter's decision to ax APIs for third-party apps without notice a “shit show”, leaving customers in the lurch
Well, it happened. — We knew it was coming. — A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.
Medium launches a Mastodon instance on me.dm, promising members a solid infrastructure, reliable moderation, smoother onboarding, and an interesting local feed
Tony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog :
Elon Musk amplifies false claims that the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests
telecoms, banks, whatever—request reimbursement from the FBI and other agencies for time spent processing law enforcement's legal requests. This email is saying that Twitter had no...
Internal documents: from at least 2017, Twitter helped the Pentagon in its covert online foreign propaganda campaigns including by whitelisting CENTCOM accounts
Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @kati...
Some legal experts say Twitter could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon
how the company shut down links to Vine. But the judge threw out that part of the complaint (now on appeal in the state's case) https://twitter.com/... Rand Fishkin / @randfish : I...