For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
without weighing into the burrito taxi discourse bc it is cursed, i humbly submit that you probably don’t need to enlist an agent via text to then go order the meal that a restaurant will prepare and then a gig worker will deliver to you.
You can now just text DoorDash and let it order for you. It’s proactive, learns from your repeat orders, and helps you find the best deals and new spots.
Just tell it what you want without any extra setup. Ask it to reorder your usual, or add it to a group text to collect
certainly seems possible. also funny that FB has a genuinely useful and inherently social product connecting people in a community (whereas facebook proper is a nightmare) and they might just undermine/destroy it for a product that's inherently anti-social
is Muse going to kill Marketplace? Seems like one of the functions they're pushing is that Muse will find the stuff you want and haggle for you. I can't imagine anything worse for sellers than a bunch of unserious and uncommitted buyers using AI to haggle prices?
Trump on DataCenters: I'm very good at real estate. Some of those buildings are absolutely beautiful. They're big and they're, you know, big, strong, powerful buildings, but they're beautiful and they add greatly to a community
borderline psychotic stuff that is probably 90% fyp rage bait. but just think we need to hone a social mechanism (probably shame?) to protect us from people who want to leech humanity and common culture out of life bc they value builder culture more
The general public hates AI music.
Here are other things the general public hated over the years.
1920s: microphones.
The idea that you could project your voice was lambasted by critics for being "manipulative" when they were first released. Today, microphones are pretty much
