It’s honestly really sad what’s been happening recently. Reddit with the API pricing on 3rd party apps, Discord with the new username change, Twitter with the rate limits, and Twitch with their new advertising rules (although that has been reverted because of backlash). Why does it seem like every company is collectively on a common mission of destroying themselves in the past few months?
I know the common answer is something around the lines of “because companies only care about making money”, but I still don’t get why it seems like all these social media companies have suddenly agreed to screw themselves during pretty much the period of March-June. One that sticks out to me especially is Reddit CEO, Huffman’s comment (u/spez), “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive”. Like reading this literally pisses me off on so many levels. I wouldn’t even have to understand the context behind his comment to say, “I am DONE with you, and I am leaving your site”.
Why is it like this? Does everyone feel the same way? I’m not sure if it’s just me but everything seems to be going downhill these days. I really do hope there is a solution out of this mess.
That’s addressing whether the mere existence of LLMs is “good” or not. That’s not going to be affected by whether someone changes their username every couple of months or whether some particular social media site makes their content annoying to scrape. LLMs exist now, and they’re only getting better; attempting to staunch the flow of genies out of the bottle at this stage is futile.
Personally, I’m actually rather pleased that my comments on Reddit over the years are factoring in to how LLMs “think.” All that ranting about the quality of Disney’s Star Wars movies not only convinced all the people who read it (I assume) but will now also convince our future AI overlords too.