HeartyOfGlass

<3 I’m rooting for these folks

It’s like taking a screwdriver and removing the bit. Users are so used to copy/pasting content from LLMs, but now it’ll require at least a proofread to make sure you’re not randomly promoting Palantir to your grandmother.

This was inevitable. It’ll be fun to see the initial glut of “here’s an essay a student turned in with a Papa John’s ad in the middle of a paragraph”, though.

Along with ads I’m convinced they’ll eventually bias the model in favor of the highest bidder(s), regardless of the tier. They’ll argue the bias is “not really an ad”.

Since everything he does is a grift, this is my two-bit theory:

His social media company has been failing pretty much since it was set up. By “merging” with an energy company promising a big, magical future product (with AI! Probably!) he can prop up his vanity project while syphoning more out of investors / laundering money from whoever.