“Look at how agile he is jumping around like that.”
At least this time he’s asking the Supreme Court to punch him in the dick instead of doing it himself.
So, stupidity of his sort is pretty infectious, it seems.
The fun part is trying to figure out just how much of the dumpster fire of people canceling their FabFitFun subscriptions was because they were offended to be told to use the code “GoFuckYourself” vs. how many were offended because they were offended by the support of Elmo. Talk about not knowing your customer base.
FabFitFun Said It Would Spend $100K in Ads on X. Customers Revolted. (businessinsider.com)
Many customers were not amused. In response to the ad on X, some said they planned on canceling their subscriptions.
FabFitFun did not respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.
Sophie Smith-Doré, a food relationship and nutrition coach in Ontario, Canada, had been a subscriber for about four years, and said she was generally happy with her boxes, which she considered a little treat for herself. But after seeing the ad, she said she canceled.
“That ad is elevating a platform that actively and intentionally creates unsafe spaces for marginalized people,” she told Business Insider. “I am a mama to a trans teen. This is not a game for me. This is very real.”
Amanda Andres tweeted a response to the FabFitFun X account, announcing she was canceling. She told Business Insider she had been a subscriber since 2020, but was done after seeing the ad. “I was confused why a ‘women’s lifestyle brand’ was tossing their hat into the Musk controversy,” she said.
On Reddit, a post with more than 400 comments discussed the ad, with most people who had responded saying they planned to cancel.
“I’ve never known a company & its owners to show so much public contempt for their customers who are literally paying their wages.” said one Redditor.
I only go there for a few minutes a few times a day. I’m seeing quite a few ads from companies I’ve never heard of with very few followers selling items that look like those “as seen on tv type” products. I block every one of them.
I hope they know they’re being blocked for advertising on twitter.
I think those types of ads on X are drop-shippers using automation to take Alibaba products, rebrand them, and sell them at a markup. The whole process is likely automated.
It will be interesting to see if Grok drives paid membership. It’s just an LLM like teh others, about ChatGPT 3.5 level, but it has real-time access to the twitter feed that makes it useful for use cases the others can’t do.
Very useful for the feed coming from racists, conspiracy theorists, fascists, trolls and scammers.
Hey, whatever floats your boat.
For myself, I’m thinking more like tech news, world events, etc. Twitter is still the best place to go for real-time or near real-time news and events. For example, it’s pretty much the only place I go to keep up with breaking news on the Ukraine war, new AI developments, etc.
Grok will answer questions like, “Please summarize the major events that have happened in the world in the past hour.”, “What’s new in AI today?” “Any new product announcements in gaming today?” Or whatever else you are interested in.
With the current ownership… there will be no warranty whatsoever that the feed will not be corrupted by those bad actors.
Yes, even with Grok.
What is the Jewish Space Laser going to set on fire today?
Seeing as how it’s Friday night, nothing. 
Oh that’s what they want you to believe.
'Member the last time someone tried to train an AI on Twitter?
I 'member!
Come hang out with me, I promise it will be better this time.
And that was the OLD Twitter. Now we have Xitter, now with more racism than ever, and new and improved assholery!
Sure, there is still good stuff on Twitter. But that’s not the point. But Grok will not be using your curated feed. So it’s going to have a lot of garbage mixed in with that bit of good stuff. That does not make it seem like it would be trustworthy.
LLMs in general have not demonstrated a great ability to curate or fact-check information. And Grok was created quickly, under Musk’s “move fast and break things” paradigm. There’s not a lot of staff for the feeds to be human curated. And Musk himself seems to have trouble with the concept, believing a lot of (often bigoted) conspiracy nonsense.
It’s not like he’s been interested in making Twitter itself do a good job of surfacing reliable information. Any feed using recommended stuff from Twitter is full of crap. You have to go followed only.
Grok is already dubious due to its provenance. But throwing it that it learns from Twitter itself seems like a very bad idea. One that a marketer might come up with to make it seem different, but not one that people would think would be useful for accurate information.
Grok would just be summarizing and filtering the feed. LLMs are actually very good at that.
PunchSelfBalls–I mean FabFitFun is begging for forgiveness.
FabFitFun turned into a dumpster fire just in time for the holiday season.
Elmo is now exactly like his orange hero: everything that Elmo touches turns to shit into a dumpster fire. At least, lately. To his credit, unlike the Orange Loser, Elmo can at least plausibly claim numerous successes.
The risk that we (the civilized world) face is that these fuckers are normalizing these extremely destructive behaviours.