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> There's no other source like that in English other than Reddit 1) Facebook Posts/Comments, 2) Instagram Posts/Comments, 3) Youtube Comments, 4) Gmail content
by temporalparts 3y ago
> There's no other source like that in English other than Reddit
1) Facebook Posts/Comments, 2) Instagram Posts/Comments, 3) Youtube Comments, 4) Gmail content, 5) LinkedIn Comments, 6) TikTok contents / comments
X and Reddit are definitely valuable, but they're definitely not unique. I think Meta and Google have inherent advantages because their data is not accessible to LLM competitors and they have the actual capabilities to build great LLMs.
Unless X decides to tap AI talent in China, they're going to have a REALLY hard time spinning up a competitive LLM team compared to OpenAI, Google, and Meta, which I think are the top three LLM companies in that order.
- emodendroket 3y agoHiring a lot of experts from China sounds extremely politically challenging.
- fjfuvucucuc 3y ago[flagged]
- emodendroket 3y agoOh give it a rest, will you? Hiring AI "also-rans" or whatever term satisfies your sense of national chauvinism then. For kicks I tried searching for news about "Chinese AI experts" and found the CCP has apparently infiltrated august institutions such as the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review (here, for instance: https://hbr.org/2021/02/is-china-emerging-as-the-global-leader-in-ai https://hbr.org/2021/02/is-china-emerging-as-the-global-lead...). Maybe you can go pester them.
- thefurdrake 3y agoI am 100% certain that there is at least a single AI expert in China. This is bait, right?
- fjfuvucucuc 3y agoOf course, the issue is they don't have an ai industry. The idea that they do is a CCP talking point theyve been pushing lately. They're pumping out fake ai crap all over the internet.
- emodendroket 3y agoThat has to be the fastest I’ve seen someone concede a statement is true that they just called “CCP propaganda” a moment ago.
- jfoster 3y agoThe discourse on Facebook & Instagram is significantly different than what you would find on X or Reddit, both in terms of quality & topics.
- monetus 3y agoFacebook groups has, weirdly enough, had a bunch of quality discussions similar to Reddit. Can't speak for Instagram, but FB groups are worth peeking into to follow your favorite software projects.
- nerdponx 3y agoMy local city/town Facebook groups are surprisingly good. Like on Reddit there's always the specter of sketchy weird things happening behind the scenes with the mods/admins, but the day-to-day experience is very much that of chatting and sharing with my neighbors.
- loa_in_ 3y agoFandom/topic or hobby/writing groups on Facebook are better quality discussion venues than Reddit if you can accept seeing some very obvious instances of spam posts and spam comments.
- thefurdrake 3y agoI haven't noticed a significant difference in discussion quality between The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter and Youtube/Reddit for most topics. Maybe I'm cynical, but the vast majority of public communication on the internet seems to be roughly the same quality in my mind.
- jfoster 3y ago> the vast majority of public communication on the internet seems to be roughly the same quality in my mind. I mean, could it be that it's just that the platforms you're familiar with are similar quality? There are major quality differences. Consider, for example, HN vs Instagram. Do you really see no difference in the quality of discourse, or do you just not use Instagram?
- rapind 3y ago> 3) Youtube Comments Is probably LLM poison. > 4) Gmail content Is huge but also has enormous privacy issues. Most people by default assume their emails are reasonably private, whereas most people wouldn't assume their comments on these platforms are private.
- NavinF 3y agoThat totally depends on the youtube channel. The tech and project channels I follow have excellent comments, often better than HN and proggit. Eg: https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown https://www.youtube.com/@reps https://www.youtube.com/@reps https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience
- boywitharupee 3y agoHow is AI talent from China related?
- buzzert 3y agoI assume it’s for access and expertise into the “Sinosphere” of knowledge. Wherein the other side of the coin is the Anglosphere in the west.