Paid verification on Twitter has been a disaster. According to all of the estimates that I've seen, Twitter is hardly making anybody for this at all. It's hard not to see this coming from Meta and not see it as a response to Elon Musk deciding to charge $8 a month for Blue checks. The project had been in the works for over a year. And it was something that they were thinking about even before Elon Musk bought Twitter.
Bing AI isn’t sentient. But it’s more than glorified autocomplete. How do we talk about — and understand — the power of today’s large language models? Then, Reddit’s C.E.O., Steve Huffman, on Section 230 and why the future of the internet lies with the Supreme Court.
Plus: Meta is charging for blue checks.
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Steve Huffman is the chief executive of Reddit.
Additional reading:
A Washington Post reporter asked Bing AI its opinion of Kevin Roose. Its response was eerie.
Microsoft made changes to Bing’s chatbot capabilities after the Chatbot’s unsettling behavior with some users. The company is already loosening some of those restrictions.
The Supreme Court heard a case challenging Section 230. Reddit is among many social media companies that have filed “friend of the court” amicus briefs against changes to the law.