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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
OpenAI says in their terms that you can't "use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI" [0], and it seems that people are interpreting it as training a model that directly competes with them, which
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
We've looked a bit into CR and Wirecutter, not that deeply into CR yet though. I definitely used Wirecutter for a bit of things in the past, and they have a high level of trust that we'll need to seek to replicate.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
I think this is a very good point. We've focused a lot on correctly matching reviews with products / brands, but haven't taken hard enough of a look at astroturfing.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Definitely feel this way too. Sometimes I think to myself that it'd be really great to have an LLM give me a well researched report on say like, recent trends on undisclosed marketing online, wished that we supported that on Lumona, bu
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
We're working with dumps of Reddit data, which means we don't have to use their API or do any scraping on Reddit itself for now. The data is updated monthly though, so we'll have figure out how to get higher quality data for
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
True, I think I would agree with most of this sentiment. Unfortunately I'm not doing many of these things and am still using my skincare products. Perhaps we should be surfacing opinions like this beyond just products.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Sorry about that, we didn't make it clear initially that Lumona only has skincare products for now, we'll be working to scale it beyond these products soon, but that message about skincare was probably not clear enough from our po
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I find it interesting that they chose to make it something that I have to wait 1-2 minutes for before I get my AI generated article. Seems to do a good job for various types of research, will give it a try next
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
That's a really good point. I think in our current iteration of the system, if we applied it to subreddits focused specifically on a particular brand, it would not be able to account for the bias there, even if it knows which subreddit
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Do you have any pointers for learning more about this space? I've personally been pretty skeptical of sponsored products on YouTube, though I find myself getting tempted to / actually trying them out anyway, but haven't thoug
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Wow, that voice on the page sounds exactly like what I hear on TikTok / Instagram all the time. Definitely evokes the feeling that I'm about to be entertained by something. Thanks for sharing that, we'll have to think hard ab
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
For now, it's just removing AutoModerators and things labeled as bots. Now that I'm reading this again, I realize doesn't really help, since bots pretending to be people recommending products, don't get filtered out.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Sorry for the confusion, we'll try to have general products soon. I just pushed a change to give an error message explaining what's happening for non-skincare related searches.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
I think that's what makes skincare interesting. We want our system to be able to understand your goal, lifestyle, budget, ... and pick out which product is the best for you, given what others who have used the product before said. With
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
The missing part of the story is when we made an early prototype using GPT-4, leaving it on overnight, and realizing that we've spent several thousand dollars of OpenAI credits...
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/15b4iks/best_... This one seems to be a good thread. Hopefully we'll have it on Lumona soon.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
r/SkincareAddiction Out of all posts comments from 2023: and: #1 skin: #23 acne: #55 because #97 actually #263
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
You're right that there are some very effective prescription treatments that aren't shown, but it doesn't seem like prescription acne treatments are the usually the appropropriate / doctor prescribed choice for most peop
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
What's happening here is that we put your search query into a model that tries to figure out what skincare product characteristics (e.g. Vitamin C, Retinol, etc) would be good for you, but when it sees something that isn't a skinc
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Hmm, that's interesting. I've been getting a lot of Instagram and Tiktok reels with the robotic TTS voice nowadays, I've just been assuming that it's a funny thing that people do so that they don't have to record th
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
We are not paying for Reddit's API to get our data, there are some really good and complete and publically available dumps of Reddit data available online. We are in contact with the folks at Reddit, which is of course a YC company, so
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
As a user of our product, I'd really hate it if we were recommending crappy products. I suspect users will also feel the same and this thought will hold us accountable.
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
For now, we're excluding Reddit posts that are clearly automated and making sure the YouTube content is not sponsored, which you are required to disclose by the YouTube ToS. We'll have to dig deeper into not to filter out spammy r
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by qiongzhouh 3y ago
Thanks for trying it out! As for the performance issues, we're looking into several things that could speed things up - Fine-tuning a small LLM for the results on the intermediate page and deploying on a provider with higher throughput