• Naia_Elwyn@lemmy.world
      181·
      12 days ago

      Momentum.

      The average person is really hard to move to a new platform. I saw this when Skype was the big thing for internet communication the Microsoft slowly made it worse and worse before it was barely a shadow of its former self.

      Alternatives existed, many that were much better, but they were slightly harder to use or came along way after people were already set on Skype.

      It wasn’t until discord that the internet shifted, but even discord has its problems.

    • lobut@lemmy.world
      8·
      12 days ago

      Politics, sports, musicians, celebrities, news …

      Those are slow to move off if they are at all.

      It’s a shame.

    • index@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      12 days ago

      Many answered you already but i’m gonna provide you with another piece of the puzzle. Why the fuck there always multiple threads about elon musk on lemmy frontpage? Propaganda and marketing runs deep.

  • Robin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    543·
    12 days ago

    I bet Grok doesn’t even have a clue about Twitter policies and is just making shit up

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      29·
      12 days ago

      Exactly, I don’t know why people haven’t understood that yet, Grok is just another LLM, it doesn’t know shit, it doesn’t understand shit, it just regurgitates words from the data it’s been trained on and it certainly isn’t an insider at Shitter.

      Stop asking Grok what the fuck Elon is doing

      IT

      DOESN’T

      KNOW

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        10·
        12 days ago

        Grok is a laughing stock in LLM world.

        • It’s worse than Gemini, Claude, so… why use it over API?

        • It’s not open source or even open weights. Elon is straight up lying when he claims it is.

        • It’s more expensive and generally more censored than great open weights models. Its even straight up worse than the remarkable Deepseek v3.

        • It has no niche. It’s not long context, it’s slopped from training on other models, it’s not fast, it has seemingly no architectural advantages (not that they publish anything about it,) it’s not particularly good at prose or code completion or answering grounded in facts (hence the subject of the OP) or anything.

        • Elon has one of the most inefficiently used H100 hoards on the planet, while other labs are making good models without being billionaires or scorching the Earth.

        • Elon is an asshole, and I don’t want anything to do with him.

        • Even for “business use,” simply associating with X makes you radioactive.

        The only ostensible reason I can think of to use Grok is ignorance, or to lick the boots of Musk/Trump. It’s not good, it’s not ‘based,’ it’s just a shitty, expensive product hyped to the moon and “better some day.” Surprise, surprise…

        Anyway, the point is Elon doesn’t care if Grok makes him look bad. Reality is irrelevant, he can hype the snot out of it and have hordes come running to bow in deference.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    12 days ago

    Isn’t it great that Americans are so intelligent and well-informed that we voted to give this trashcan more power?

    We pretty much fucked any chance we had for the middle/lower classes to gain more power/influence during our lifetimes. Weak middle/lower classes = shit country. It’s only going downhill from here.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      143·
      12 days ago

      We pretty much fucked any chance we had for the middle/lower classes to gain more power/influence during our lifetimes.

      I may have disagreed with you if Kamala hadn’t spent the end of 2024 proving that the destruction of the traditional Republican party (not that I was a fan of R in the first place) was all the excuse D needed to sprint to the right. It’s not even like D is trying to pull things the other way, they have literally just embraced this opportunity to become even closer to corporate interests and move their party to the right.

      They are fighting R because they are obligated to do so, but I no longer believe anyone in power in the Democrats cares any more about the middle class and non-white, non-male, non-Christian, non-straight Americans than R does. Pelosi put the final nail in the coffin of my good will towards Democrats.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        252·
        12 days ago

        I mean you can, and should be, pissed off at Democrats all you want. Doesn’t change that all data point towards them being a better decision for middle/lower class Americans.

        Problem is, a bunch of Americans feel the way you do, but instead of still voting intelligently, despite being upset with Dems, they chose to stay home or vote 3rd party.

        So now a felon rapist is our leader and the ultra rich have made it abundantly clear average people like us are going to lose even more power.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          96·
          12 days ago

          I mean you can, and should be, pissed off at Democrats all you want. Doesn’t change that all data point towards them being a better decision for middle/lower class Americans.

          Very true.

          Problem is, a bunch of Americans feel the way you do, but instead of still voting intelligently, despite being upset with Dems, they chose to stay home or vote 3rd party.

          Wasn’t me this time, but will be next time. I voted angrily for Kamala. I’m not voting for the less-evil conservative party next time. I need to see differentiation and I need to see progressive policy stances. I’ve been voting for what Democrats might one day do if they ever get the chance for 40 years because I wasn’t willing to support Republicans. And I could accept all the compromises that kept pushing that carrot down the road.

          I don’t view those things the same anymore. I saw what D did just in the last two months prior to this election and that was enough. (not by a damn sight my only complaints of the past four years, but the final straw. I can no longer pretend this is the party I was told it was all that time.) They need to be a different party next time, or I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life being one of the people folks hate for R getting elected. I’m not voting for the party of “what R used to be.”

          At this point I think they are fighting against R because they have no other party to fight against, not because they have a shared principle among them.

          Edited to add: Trump has brought the worst of every part of US history and society to the forefront and personified those things himself. And the response of D was still to become more like R, not less. Nuh-uh. They have four years to unfuck themselves, or I am done with them.

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 days ago

          If the right will continue to have weird ideas, they might force you to have one. First it’ll be tax-breaks for families having children, then an outright childless tax, then other repercussions.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        12 days ago

        You been paying attention? Elon and Trump are buddy buddy. Elon has donated big time. He has shown up at rallies. They did a live interview together weeks before the election. Trump tapped Elon to be the head of a new government efficiency department. Now he’s making questionable posts on social media regarding our government and what he plans to do regarding it.

        If you voted for Donald Trump, you voted to give Elon Musk more power in our politics. Anyone who thinks otherwise is engaging in an act of extreme ignorance.

  • roofTophopper@lemmy.world
    20·
    12 days ago

    Aaaand the solution to this? Get the fuck off Twitter. I don’t know why people love to see blatant abuse of authority and are cool with that. Quit being chodes and supporting a chode.

  • cryoistalline@lemmy.ml
    19·
    12 days ago

    Suggestion the public is being manipulated

    to me this sounds like they’re trying to cover something they’re doing up

    • 50MYT@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 days ago

      Bullet ballot voting % increases, swing states using a database acquired through a “undecided voters” campaign, and a wireless internet service provider being used to send votes from remote locations.

      Nothing to see here.

  • dx1@lemmy.world
    61·
    12 days ago

    When your “not freedom of reach” miraculously turns into “0 reach”

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    53·
    12 days ago

    Shocked, shocked I am.

    Okay I did the funny quote, where’s my winnings?

  • Mickey7@lemmy.world
    127·
    12 days ago

    We all saw the undeniable evidence that Twitter had suppressed anything not in line with the positions of the left. If “X” is now doing exactly the same thing regarding posts not conforming with positions of the right then it’s just more bullshit. What is the problem with treating every position equally? I understand censorship in regard to things like doxing, child porn, and calls for violence…but everything else should be allowed and let users decide for themselves. Haven’t we had enough of being “told” what to think.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      181·
      12 days ago

      We all saw the undeniable evidence that Twitter had suppressed anything not in line with the positions of the left.

      The green line is (at least) the one you need.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          191·
          12 days ago

          We all saw the undeniable evidence that Twitter had suppressed anything not in line with the positions of the left.

          Called out. Posts this:

          Did you mean this… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-admits-bias-in-algorithm-for-rightwing-politicians-and-news-outlets

          But apparently doesn’t read past the headline.

          Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds

          The research found that in six out of seven countries, apart from Germany, tweets from rightwing politicians received more amplification from the algorithm than those from the left; right-leaning news organisations were more amplified than those on the left; and generally politicians’ tweets were more amplified by an algorithmic timeline than by the chronological timeline.

          According to a 27-page research document, Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany. Under the research, a value of 0% meant tweets reached the same number of users on the algorithm-tailored timeline as on its chronological counterpart, whereas a value of 100% meant tweets achieved double the reach. On this basis, the most powerful discrepancy between right and left was in Canada (Liberals 43%; Conservatives 167%), followed by the UK (Labour 112%; Conservatives 176%). Even excluding top government officials, the results were similar, the document said.