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Twitter's communication style being based around brevity, slang, memes, spam and non-threaded conversations seems particularly unlikely to be helpful for optimi

Twitter's communication style being based around brevity, slang, memes, spam and non-threaded conversations seems particularly unlikely to be helpful for optimising LLMs

aleph_minus_one 7mo ago
> Twitter's communication style [...] seems particularly unlikely to be helpful for optimising LLMs This depends on what one wants to optimize the AI for. ;-)
tclancy 7mo ago
>Twitter's communication style being based around brevity Is this still true? Every once in a while someone sends a link around to some madman explaining how race or economics or whatever "really" works and it's like a full dissertation with headings, footnotes, clip art. They're halfway to reinventing Grok-o-pedia right there in Twitter. I mean X. I was promised that "X gonna give it to you" but it turns out "it" is some form of brain chlymidia.
- 3rodents 7mo ago
  Elon was running some sort of $1m competition for the “best” Twitter post for a few months. I think those type of dissertations about Phrenology and the like have fallen off a cliff since the competition ended.
  - tclancy 7mo ago
    Ooohhhh. I am both glad and horrified to know this. Not how Seneca told me life would be when I learned things.
- delecti 7mo ago
  There's probably a selection bias involved. I haven't been a regular user for a while now, but the big threads like that were significantly outnumbered by individual posts. Meanwhile I'm not likely to send a link to someone of a single single-sentence tweet, because there's not enough meat to it. The stuff that could be shared would usually be an image from the tweet, which I could share directly.
libertine 7mo ago
And the amount of bots there isn't helpful either.
- facemelt2 7mo ago
  recent changes in their comment system have reduced my exposure to bots to a level I much prefer over every other platform I use
  - tanjtanjtanj 7mo ago
    How recent? As recently as last weekend I was seeing blue check marks replying with AI generated only-technically-related replies on top of the majority of the posts I looked at.
  - libertine 7mo ago
    If that's actually true, good for them, but after what I've witnessed there not that long ago, I doubt I'll try it ever again.
  - rvnx 7mo ago
    There are bots here too, lot of them, to a point that rules were amended, this is because it's very valuable to give points to new publications

Twitter's communication style being based around brevity, slang, memes, spam and non-threaded conversations seems particularly unlikely to be helpful for optimising LLMs

aleph_minus_one 7mo ago

> Twitter's communication style [...] seems particularly unlikely to be helpful for optimising LLMs This depends on what one wants to optimize the AI for. ;-)

tclancy 7mo ago

>Twitter's communication style being based around brevity Is this still true? Every once in a while someone sends a link around to some madman explaining how race or economics or whatever "really" works and it's like a full dissertation with headings, footnotes, clip art. They're halfway to reinventing Grok-o-pedia right there in Twitter. I mean X. I was promised that "X gonna give it to you" but it turns out "it" is some form of brain chlymidia.

3rodents 7mo ago
Elon was running some sort of $1m competition for the “best” Twitter post for a few months. I think those type of dissertations about Phrenology and the like have fallen off a cliff since the competition ended.
- tclancy 7mo ago
  Ooohhhh. I am both glad and horrified to know this. Not how Seneca told me life would be when I learned things.
delecti 7mo ago
There's probably a selection bias involved. I haven't been a regular user for a while now, but the big threads like that were significantly outnumbered by individual posts. Meanwhile I'm not likely to send a link to someone of a single single-sentence tweet, because there's not enough meat to it. The stuff that could be shared would usually be an image from the tweet, which I could share directly.

libertine 7mo ago

And the amount of bots there isn't helpful either.

facemelt2 7mo ago
recent changes in their comment system have reduced my exposure to bots to a level I much prefer over every other platform I use
- tanjtanjtanj 7mo ago
  How recent? As recently as last weekend I was seeing blue check marks replying with AI generated only-technically-related replies on top of the majority of the posts I looked at.
- libertine 7mo ago
  If that's actually true, good for them, but after what I've witnessed there not that long ago, I doubt I'll try it ever again.
- rvnx 7mo ago
  There are bots here too, lot of them, to a point that rules were amended, this is because it's very valuable to give points to new publications