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Chris Tolles

@tolles
20 posts
2023-02-20
@fpmarconi Ok. I will concede this is a greyer area from a pure tos standpoint (and withdraw my accusation of libel) but when there is a discrepancy between posted TOS and robots.txt, in practice, a crawler is engaging in a protected action. https://law.stackexchange.com/ ...
2023-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content

Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …

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@Techmeme @gerryfsmith Guessing this is going to go to court and the “right to read” for machines litigated. Right now crawling public info is legally solid (and if that violates a TOS, so far courts have said that's ok, from what I can tell)
2023-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content

Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …

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@fpmarconi Their Robots.txt spell out the crawling policies. You don't need an agreement to crawl a site. Seems like a speculative accusation without understanding of the way the web works unless you have something more solid
2023-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content

Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …

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2022-09-21
“And Adobe initially offered Field more, the sources add, before the CEO settled upon a roughly even split with staff” — props to the CEO for giving more to his crew here https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-21 View on X
Forbes

Adobe's Figma retention package may be the biggest since Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, exceeding deal packages from Auth0, LinkedIn, Mobileye, and Slack

a key player in the Figma deal, now on the Adobe side. Salesforce couldn't hold on to Tableau's Adam Selipsky, back as CEO at AWS. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/.....

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2022-05-25
@OakSyder @nikitabier I'd argue journalists were mainly just throwing stuff against the wall desperately trying to get people to care and that one stuck. Main thing journos don't like is being disintermediated by tech
2022-05-25 View on X
CNBC

As Snap's growth warning sends its stock down 43.04%, other tech stocks drop too: Meta by 7.62%, Pinterest by 23.64%, Alphabet by 4.95%, and Twitter by 5.55%

Lauren Feiner / CNBC :

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2021-10-27
@antoniogm @balajis What the last administration showcased was that journalism can't successfully take down large enough targets who have no shame, despite the combined efforts of all of them trying to do so
2021-10-27 View on X
Platformer

Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals

> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and brea...

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@antoniogm @balajis What the last administration showcased was that journalism can't successfully take down large enough targets who have no shame, despite the combined efforts of all of them trying to do so
2021-10-27 View on X
Platformer

Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted

A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks

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2021-07-10
It's hard running a news aggregator profitably. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-10 View on X
The Wrap

News Corp has shut down its news aggregation service Knewz after just 18 months of operation, citing lack of profits

the Quibi of news aggregation https://twitter.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : oh kno https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Chris Mohney / @chrismohney : literally and a...

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2021-03-24
Ok, after sniggering over Verizon media with an i banker friend of mine last weekend...Lemme be contrarian and say that some of their stuff is great (yahoo finance, sports, TC) and if positioned right (Robinhood crowd, fantasy sports) could be cool. Opportunity to bash Google too https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-24 View on X
Axios

Verizon Media Group to rebrand most of its media franchises as Yahoo products and sell subscriptions to those products via Yahoo+, a new subscription platform

Sara Fischer / Axios :

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2020-12-24
Always bemused that @jwz's law holds up remarkably well https://www.catb.org/... cc @TechmemeChatter https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-24 View on X
The Information

Sources: Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app

and how 2020 changed Zoom forever Tweets: Sharon O'Dea / @sharonodea : But y tho? (Seriously, no one wants this. Changing your primary email is a PITA so adding gmail won't encoura...

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2020-08-27
Really interesting future history of the events space by @rafat, who looks back at the digital distribution of all the other media areas to make the case. Def worth a read https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-27 View on X
Skift

A few lessons for the events industry from digital turning points in music, video, and news industries, as Zoom transforms events like Napster changed music

All types of business events are in danger of their revenue streams of tickets, sponsorships, memberships, and other types of fees being eroded. Tweets: @waxy , @ruudwjanssen , @ra...

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2020-04-02
@brianmcc @TechmemeChatter It's like who do they think they are, Facebook? (Or someone with one of the founders still in charge?)
2020-04-02 View on X
The Information

Sources: YouTube is planning to release Shorts, a rival to TikTok inside YouTube's main app, by the end of the year

YouTube is planning to release a rival to TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, by the end of the year, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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2020-03-06
@MikeIsaac @JuddLegum Facebook's metapolicy should be to reject all outside accountability other than what is required by law. Essentially, all press and activists should be informed that every decision is on a case by case basis and subject to change. That's what it is anyway.
2020-03-06 View on X
Popular Information

Facebook reverses course and says it will remove 1K+ deceptive census ads being run by the Trump campaign, after initially saying they do not violate its policy

November's election will have an enormous impact on politics in the United States for the next four years.

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2020-02-17
@antoniogm (Personally, I'd say the disconnect is that journalists believe earnestly that they are the sole representatives of the interests of the public & SV believes that the public's interests are best characterized by what they buy or use and so we are a better & more real gauge)
2020-02-17 View on X
Hunter Walk

Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame

Twitter is especially stupid right now … Bryant Jefferson / MediaSquared : Mom, Tech and Media Are Fighting Again! Tweets: Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis : Incredible. Last week I...

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2020-02-16
@antoniogm (Personally, I'd say the disconnect is that journalists believe earnestly that they are the sole representatives of the interests of the public & SV believes that the public's interests are best characterized by what they buy or use and so we are a better & more real gauge)
2020-02-16 View on X
Hunter Walk

Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame

[with a post like this, i'm not 100% sure i got it right in first publish - i don't draft and i don't circulate for feedback …

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2020-01-20
Call me shocked. https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-20 View on X
New York Times

An analysis of 40 studies finds that the link between social media use and both depression and anxiety among adolescents is small and inconsistent

A growing number of academics are challenging assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children.

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@Carnage4Life @TechmemeChatter I think this would need to be squared with the recent decision that scraping info is a protected activity. Personally, I think the focus should be on government use of photo & any social media data without a warrant
2020-01-20 View on X
New York Times

A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : FBI in Possession of Software Able to Profile Anyone Using Just a Picture Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up ...

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2020-01-19
@Carnage4Life @TechmemeChatter I think this would need to be squared with the recent decision that scraping info is a protected activity. Personally, I think the focus should be on government use of photo & any social media data without a warrant
2020-01-19 View on X
New York Times

A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it

A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

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2019-12-28
Direct mail campaigns also use micro targeting (and were considered one of the most effective parts of Obama's primary win, if I recall correctly). And if FB and Google ban them, assuming email will pick up the slack. I don't think this horse goes back in the barn
2019-12-28 View on X
Ad Age

Spotify will suspend political ads in early 2020, citing the lack of tools to review them; source: political ads are not a significant source of its revenue

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and the RNC are among Spotify advertisers  —  Spotify is suspending the sale of political advertising …

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2019-10-07
Guy's gotta point (and usually I have a lotta eye roll on @dhh). You can be all precious *or* be a SV platform monopolist, but trying for both is an issue https://twitter.com/...
2019-10-07 View on X
WordPress Tavern

Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails' creator David Heinemeier Hansson discuss balance of power in open source projects, tradeoffs of growing WordPress market share

Sarah Gooding / WordPress Tavern :

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