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Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data. I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting res
by djyaz1200 2y ago
Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data.
I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses.
- FredPret 2y agoThis would be a huge improvement on some news sites which do little more than regurgitate controversial Tweets (Xeets?)
- testfrequency 2y agoThat’s a version of the “news” I’d care to never have summarized. Also seems like a perfect incentive to spread (even more) harmful disinformation.
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- BiteCode_dev 2y agoI would love that. Problem is, it will probably not tell you the truth about it as Twitter has always had censorship one way or the other. So it will tell you what twitter policy is allowing people to talk about and allowing grok to report.
- soco 2y agoI don't really understand this Twitter (or in general social media) censorship argument. If I call someone on the street a fckin idiot I probably get slapped or even shot in certain places, and everybody will say I called for it. And even without physical violence I can get slapped with a lawsuit and forced to pay damages. Now if I do the same on social media it's suddenly all "muh liberty of expression" if anyone reacts to it. Aren't we maybe having the wrong expectations online, that it would be somehow supporting all the shit we cannot do in real life? Okay I realize this ship already sailed and online people do online all shit not allowed offline, but I rather see the situation as a miserable failure of law enforcement, and not as a hard won right to be an ass to your fellow citizens.
- onesociety2022 2y agoWhat country do you live in? In the USA, you can say “I think person X is an idiot”. That’s protected speech. No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL. If someone punches you in the face for calling them an idiot on the street, then they are likely going to get prosecuted for those actions. Yes you run the risk of getting punched in the face but you are not in any trouble with the law. OTOH it’s a problem if you say “Person X is a rapist”. Then you might get sued for libel. You can’t make false statements to destroy someone’s reputation. Censorship online on a social media platform is not subject to any freedom of speech laws. Freedom of speech only applies to the US Government not restricting your speech. The social media platform has the authority to regulate speech however they want to on their platform.
- soco 2y agoSo the difference is the kind of insult?
- dreamcompiler 2y ago> No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL In the USA, you can absolutely be sued for this. The plaintiff is unlikely to win, and you could probably get the case dismissed if you convince a judge that's it's clearly an opinion, but you'd still have to pay a lawyer some fees. People can sue you for anything. The first amendment doesn't protect you from lawsuits. It protects you from the government putting you in jail for speech.
- hatefulmoron 2y agoI don't really get why people point this out. Yes, you can be sued for anything. But what are you actually suggesting? That you do nothing, ever, because you could be sued for anything? Or are we just doing the same old nitpick?
- lesuorac 2y agoThey point it out because there was an explicit claim to the contrary. "No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL. "
- michaelbuckbee 2y agofwiw - you can do this right now with Grok 2.
- melodyogonna 2y agoThis is a feature they've already built into Twitter. I tried to extend it to work outside Twitter but still based on Twitter trends, basically allowing people to glance at Grok's summaries of global conversations. Unfortunately the new API pricing for Twitter is prohibitly expensive
- lopis 2y agoThis was probably more useful back when everyone was on twitter.
- truthbtold2 2y agoEveryone significant still is
- henry2023 2y agoHow funny!
- niceice 2y agoTo be fair, it was never everyone. Twitter was always small compared to Facebook and other networks. It punches above its weight because it's where the cultural elite communicate.
- plank 2y agoCommunicateD ?
- alasdair_ 2y agoNo one I pay attention to posts on twitter any more.
- floor2 2y agoSerious question, where do they post to? As far as I can tell, Mastodon was briefly hyped on HN but nobody actually uses it. Bluesky seems to have a few people within a fairly narrow political range. Truth social is just for Trump. Reddit is pseudoanonymous as is HN. Instagram is for sharing photos not ideas or links. TikTok is a Skinner box. I ask this as someone who genuinely doesn't know how to use the internet anymore. Reddit used to be useful but is now a cesspool. LinkedIn is a weird place where we all post like Stepford wives for our employers. The twitter-clones all feel a bit like using a paper straw to fight climate change. I know there are semi-private slack groups and discord channels out there, but I don't know how to find or join them and it seems like a hassle to follow. Basically, for me, no one I pay attention to posts anywhere any more.
- smgit 2y agoNot really. See what Claude Shannon has to say about channel capacity of what your brain can digest if Grok finds 8 million things that are happening currently that might be interesting to you.
- agumonkey 2y agoIsn't twitter mostly low quality text or full blown noise ?
- moogly 2y ago> Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data. Or is the advantage the other way around? That it has access to Twitter users (the ones that are not bots, that is)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y&t=1005s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y&t=1005s
- ratg13 2y agoI wouldn't call access to hundreds of thousands of posts of "PUSSY IN BIO" an advantage, but to each their own.
- lucisferre 2y agoCan you elaborate? What would you ask it about what people are saying on Twitter and what kind of response would be interesting and potentially valuable?
- MikeOfAu 2y agoPosts often reference people, events, technology, places, etc. Grok effortlessly provides background, counterpoints, etc. I find it amazingly useful.
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- srid 2y agoThat's a great advantage in theory. In practice, I've never found X integration to work great in practice. For eg., when I asked it to source X posts on Nix related complaints it was only able to find a single niche user, https://x.com/i/grok/share/Qw5NDq5BINGSBqNg9wrqBjf1y https://x.com/i/grok/share/Qw5NDq5BINGSBqNg9wrqBjf1y
- zelon88 2y ago> I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses. You'll get exactly what Elon wants it to say.
- ImJamal 2y agoI don't think so, at least not with the previous version. When asked if it would vote for Trump or Harris, it said Harris https://x.com/i/grok/share/dideG2pNJEXZmjEtXoISDD8CT https://x.com/i/grok/share/dideG2pNJEXZmjEtXoISDD8CT
- zelon88 2y agoThis is the second launch. Because during the first grok wasn't politically aligned enough with elon.
- GenerocUsername 2y agoIs this true or are you just speculating based on nothing
- zelon88 2y ago[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks-grok-twitter-ai-is-actually-woke-hilarity-ensues/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...
- isodev 2y ago> the world Well, a tiny slice of the world - Elon, his supporters, bots and a couple of stray humans posting porn.
- soulofmischief 2y agoI built this with a pal years ago. Elasticsearch + realtime scraping of large swathes of Twitter, Discord, other chat networks and aggregators, comment systems, news articles, etc. LLM-augmented analysis engine and ontological recovery. It was pretty cool, but we lacked funding to continue and then everyone closed the hatches after ChatGPT released.
- jasonjmcghee 2y agoYou must have a pretty cool unique dataset though
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI don't know when it was enabled, but on Desktop if you click on the Grok icon on a Tweet, it will tell you all the context. It's been quiet useful to keep up with obscure posts that pop up.
- Noumenon72 2y agoThis is one of my quickest adopted AI features. Twitter is one of the most opaque social media because of the character limit and the way it mixes different in-crowds in verbal combat, so explaining the context really makes it more fun to use. They just need to improve the feature with even more training. I feel there is usually one main obscure item that needs explaining and it often explains everything else.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoWhat shocks me more is when the tweet is only a video or image, and it still pulls up as much as it knows.
- henry2023 2y agoGrok - Two Roman salutes were given at the president's inauguration. Nothing else happened today.
- huhtenberg 2y ago> what the world is talking about today Not world. Twitter and whoever's left on it.
- solumunus 2y agoTwitter data seems awful. Full to the brim with bots and misinformation.
- prettyblocks 2y agoI like that Grok actually comes up with a ton of links when you ask it a question, but at the same time I think any ambitious LLM platform wouldn't have too much trouble scraping Twitter/X all the same.
- isthisthingon1 2y agowhat an interesting prompt