Gilad Lotan

Join us 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️ buzzfeed.com/jonah/the-anti…

These platforms cash in on the attention economy while sidestepping any accountability for the polarization, outrage, and misinformation they've fueled. The public is waking up. People know the system is broken and are hungry for something better. It's time for a change.

We're building something bold and refreshing to take on the internet's SNARF-fueled chaos. While many blame "The Media," it is the Tech giants that fully control content distribution -- shaping the entire media ecosystem while pretending they have nothing to do with it.

The Anti-SNARF Manifesto SNARF content is breaking the internet and frying our brains, here is how we are fighting back buzzfeed.com/jonah/the-anti…

Applications to the next @betaworks camp (beta.works/nativeapplicat…) officially closed on Friday but we left the link on (and got a TON of applications) ... also got a couple dozen emails asking for an extension. SOOOO... we're extending the deadline by another week.

@sarahcat21 Zeta or Zipf have my vote

True story: I almost named our (upcoming) daughter Gemma because Gamma is my favorite probability distribution. My husband veto'ed it. I also named my dog Bixby 9 years ago...

@zoink Huge opportunity for Figma to continue to build the absolute best collaborative tool used by anyone and everyone building digital products.

After an intense 15 months of review, today Adobe and Figma have decided to end our pending merger, as we no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of the deal. figma.com/blog/figma-ado…

@hspter 100%

If my entire career (and institute) was based on algorithmic bias in social media, I would probably not tweet out a bunch of stuff that could easily be false, and then keep defending it after it's been shown to be false

New blog post up, and it's about The Problem With LangChain minimaxir.com/2023/07/langch…

@cairns impressive!

/cc @gilgul for recipe ideas

The wonders of AI. I asked ChatGPT to plan a 2500 calorie meal with random ingredients and the answer didn't disappoint. "...Melt the grated cheese and chopped chocolate, stirring frequently..." 🐖🍑🧈🍋🧀🍫

While everyone is worried about the AI apocalypse, we at BuzzFeed are helping readers unlock AI's true potential: designing and naming a sandwich after each and every reader. Take the quiz - a collaboration between our writers and @OpenAI @StableDiffusion buzzfeed.com/sarahaspler/ai…

nice! using @tasty's ChatGPT plugin to get side dishes for this weekend - still may do dauphinoise though but have always wanted to do fondant...

@omershapira I'm surprised there are so many (estimated) paying subscribers

From the data: • 6,482 legacy verified accounts [out of 420,000] have converted to blue • Estimated 475,000 paying subscribers • The Median user has <1000 • ~18% have <100 followers Years of research into how Twitter works (s/o @gilgul) tell us how it'll become irrelevant

@ginasue I'm so sorry for your loss Gina

My incredible, young, fit, sassy mother just died of complications from Covid. She did so much good in the world and will be greatly missed by many. Here she is 3 years ago today. This wretched disease.

It's our ✨public ✨ debut! ;) 🎉 BZFD 🎉

Great to see a lot of new, explosive reporting around Facebook's behavior. Let's revisit some of our classics🧵

I introduced BuzzFeed CEO Jonah @peretti to the magic of AI art generation using VQGAN + CLIP. He had a *lot* of fun with it! buzzfeed.com/jonah/only-an-…

This blog post has me fully convinced that @minimaxir is truly an AI generated person

Sobering piece by @caitochs on the implications of using faulty data as foundational inputs for allocation purposes. Colorado River water basin rights were calculated based on an abnormally wet historical period. Promised water that is no longer available buzzfeednews.com/article/caitoc…

@kelsa_ continue to avoid people in order to mitigate for hangovers.... ?

anyone else experience "people hangovers" after a year+ of not spending time with other humans?