Why are Snap, LinkedIn, and Substack turning away from slop while Meta and TikTok embrace it? It comes down to what the platforms promise their user bases www.platformer.news/slop-restric...
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Casey Newton
Профиль VivelyEmail salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
And they all email every pitch three times "in case this got buried." Girl who do you think buried it
Josh SternbergThere are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
First Substack, then LinkedIn, now Snap: companies are taking steps to restrict the spread of slop newsroom.snap.com/rewarding-au...
I talked to the CEO of one of the only good AI *product* companies — Chris Pedregal of Granola — about what an AI notetaker learns about a company, and what bosses keep asking him to do with it www.platformer.news/granola-chri...
Feels like the past week has been a big moment for Substackers realizing that they don't control the platform and it can make decisions that go against their interests at any time, for any reason www.404media.co/substackers-...
Wrote about why AI safety incidents are leading ~some people~ to stick their fingers in their ears and insist nothing is happening www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...