John Herrman @jwherrman
writer @nymag. lurking. john.herrman at nymag dot com new york Joined March 2009-
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the chatbots at the end of the web
In conversation with @jwherrman about Google search results, I mentioned that googling today feels like searching for information in a supermarket. There is a sidebar with filters and tags. You get carousels with products and prices. There are big brands everywhere. It’s like…
In conversation with @jwherrman about Google search results, I mentioned that googling today feels like searching for information in a supermarket. There is a sidebar with filters and tags. You get carousels with products and prices. There are big brands everywhere. It’s like…
the state of product recommendations, in two parts
P O S T S I N B I O ft @jwherrman Tech writer John Herrman joins us to discuss his recent article in NY Magazine's Intelligencer about the 'Pussy in bio' bots. John helps us place this most modern expression of spam into context of online scams. patreon.com/posts/102639125
the early crop of A.I. gadgets is actually *extremely* useful for understanding where the technology is at, how it's changed, and where it might be going
From me: On Lavender, military AI, and the limits of AI criticism. artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/lavender-mil…
podcast in bio (featuring PIB king @jwherrman plus @danahull @harmancipants and me) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
deepfakes don't so much trick people as convince people they're being tricked the *rest* of the time nymag.com/intelligencer/…
the woman this avatar is based on told me she thought it was real for the first few seconds nymag.com/intelligencer/…
the woman this avatar is based on told me she thought it was real for the first few seconds nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Also: I’m excited to support the NYMag Union as we head back to the bargaining table today #NewContractNewYork
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you wake up as Madison Beer, what’s the first thing you’re doing ?
There’s an art to distilling these to the absolute minimal necessary text. The human brain can’t comprehend how stupid these things are without practice.
You thought LLM chatbots required a lot of compute? That's cute. It's when fully-generative TikTok/YouTube hits the mainstream that you'll start needing a *lot* of GPUs. Orders of magnitude more compute, both because the medium is more intensive and because the audience will be…
“How Product Recommendations Broke Google And ate the internet in the process.” @intelligencer What a mess. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Pointing to the sign again
What side do you choose? Do you choose the mom-and-pop shop generational small business or the trillionaire oligarchs from Denver? Do you choose the NBA legend on potentially his last hurrah or the chunky European invader who doesn't even like basketball who has taken the…
Over the past year, tech CEOs seem to have realized the naivete of their "AGI in 3 years" projections. Instead of walking back their claims, they've watered down what they mean by AGI so much that it's meaningless now. It helped that AGI was never clearly defined to begin with.
Things are getting weirdly funny at this point.
Today, we got an alert about a mention of housefresh.com on a big media site in a big round-up of must-buy Amazon products 🤔 It turned out that Refinery29 pretended to poll its readers for their best product recommendations, but it actually scraped Amazon reviews.
The efficiency guys are great for creating a zillion meaningless Amazon "brands" to sell heaps of anonymous product of highly variable quality. They're not who you want in charge of things that need to be, like, safe or interesting or creative to be long-term profitable
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let's put a humane pin in this and check back later
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The way Nigerian twitter is blowing up at this makes me think a lot of ChatGPTisms are just colloquial language for the workforce they hired to write fine tuning data.
Someone sent me a cold email proposing a novel project. Then I noticed it used the word "delve."
Update, the ratio is now “every person person”
literally every third person on the street in manhattan is looking directly at the sun right now
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