Your weekly brew made up of top stories, key events and some great insights; slow roated & served hot!
In this week’s brew:
Twitter Files - The new show in the town
After getting the control of Twitter Elon Musk tweeted, that he would make internal communications about some high profile sensoring done at Twitter before his time public. To be honest, not much was expected untill
put out a thread as the first installment of Twitter Files detailing the sequence of events leading to & following sensoring of Hunter Biden laptop story that New York Post had broken. Here is the thread:It broke the twitter, if not internet. The threa became another piece of viral content: talked, scrutinized, torn apart, downplayed and memed. By all standards, they are the biggest show in Twitter town.
Good thing about this series though is that we don’t need to wait for a whole year for another season.
followed up with part 2 - The Secret Blacklists.And a third part was immdiately made available by, again
. This time probably the most juciest of them all - The Trump Ban story!In a way it is incredible that it is npw possible for us to understand what goes through presumably well meaning people, when they get to a position where they believe they have earned a right to make decisions beyond their remit. Isn’t that what happened at Twitter? But it is also worrying, that how easy it is for a bunch of entitled individuals to control the public discourse to the extent that it has real world political repurcussions.
What ChatGPT is chatting about?
The answer to that question i,s a lot. And, to be honest, all of it is not coming across as very intelligent.
For the uninitiated ChatGPT is essentially a chat bot trained within OpenAI initiative to respond to a vast range of questions in a conversational fasion which allows for follow up dialogue.
So what happened? While in test mode, it has been made freely available for people to ask questions and have conversations. It is immpressive, no doubt there. But, as more people chatted, more bullshit came out. After all, a bot is only as good as the material it is trained upon. But, more than bullshit the worry is the ability it showcases, to reinforce at scale the bullshit that has already been existing.
This has also given us the glimpse of how effectively at scale can the pioneers - who control trianing and policy of AI - take complete control of narrative. While in popular imagination a war with AI seemed to be the iminent danger, it is this control which is inevitable.
FTX - A whirlpool in which evreryone is spiraling
Since FTX crashed, the bad news doesn’t seem to stop coming. Within weeks what was considered an incredibly amazing success story turned in to a convoluted evil plan. As always, neither of those two are completely true. But one does get a feeling that despite the enormity of stiking pile that FTX saga is, SBF seems to be given much slack. From puff pieces appearing in newspapers to regulators treating him with kid gloves - all appears to be moving in to the direction of giant cover up and providing a way out.
Most touted reason for this is the large some of donations givens to democrats and also huge amount of investment made in media. In simple words, the money are at the right places. But, there is also a fear along beneficiaries, that a real action can lead to all the benefits that they have recieved being clawed back during the liquidation.
There are so much out there, and so many narratives, that at least at the moment, it is quite difficult to separate the chaff from the wheat.
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