Spoke at an event. My topic was Content Monetization. After my session, half the questions were on content monetization, the rest- ‘Do you think Elon Musk will be good for Twitter?’
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Meta Engineer Meeting on Business Manager Issues
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Nik, I’m meeting with a Meta engineer who is lead on Business Manager tomorrow to address my latest issues! Wish me luck haha
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Blue Tick Monetization Risks Encouraging Trolling Behavior
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Interesting. Making the Blue tick process more transparent and accessible is certainly a step in the right direction. But linking it to a nominal monthly payment is debatable. Could legitimize noise creation & encourage a 'pay & troll' practice.
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Demis Hassabis Named AI’s Grandmaster by Vox
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DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis is #AI’s grandmaster https://
vox.com/future-perfect
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Meta AI Columbia U Improve Dialogue Models with Response Refinement
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Meta AI & Columbia U ‘Squeeze the Juice’ to Turn Bad Responses into Good Labels and Boost Dialogue Model Performance https://
syncedreview.com/2022/11/01/met
a-ai-columbia-u-squeeze-the-juice-to-turn-bad-responses-into-good-labels-and-boost-dialogue-model-performance/
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Monetizing Digital Badges: Why Users Pay for Status Symbols
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I'm confused who would pay $8/month for a badge that conveys "I'm a sucker who pays $8/month for this badge" and nothing more. Then again, this works for cosmetics in video games, so
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Verification Badge Economics: Authenticity or Paid Status?
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Verification officially marks that "an account of public interest is authentic." Most people want verification because it makes them seem important/better than other ppl. This changes the semantic meaning: X paid $8/month. Is the hope people will conflate with the previous one?
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Blue check monetization levels playing field for social equality
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Charging for the blue check moves it from a status symbol to a utilitarian one. It elicits shrieks because it’s more about leveling the playing field than making money.
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AT&T Supercharges Field Dispatch with cuOpt GPU Solver
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See how AT&T is supercharging their field dispatch capabilities by leveraging the cuOpt solver on the GPU: https://
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Google Scholar pricing and Semantic Scholar as billionaire-funded alternative
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It would actually be more comforting if Google charged something reasonable to institutions for Scholar. Interestingly, competitor @SemanticScholar appears to be the result of a billionaire's endowment (the Allen Institute for AI), so maybe it represents a long-term alternative.