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83 points

Is it just me or are Twitter, Reddit, and now Google, scrambling to lock their doors to any entities trying to scrape the web for new AI datasets?

All these hugely unpopular decisions, taken on short notice, that may be fatal to their platforms, seem to be more like knee jerk reactions to protect their treasure hoards of possible AI input data.

Opinions?

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48 points

scrambling to lock their doors

From a consumer perspective, it seems like all the FANG conglomerates are trying to shut the stable door after the AI horse has bolted, but perhaps from an industry perspective, their just trying to pull up the ladder behind themselves to curb competition, or stall any emerging upstarts, just like most FANGs where themselves only decades ago.

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16 points

FANG isn’t really an accurate word anymore.

It’s MAAA: Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon.

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8 points

You’re missing Microsoft, it’s bigger than Meta.

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7 points

Bonus: it sounds like a scream of terror.

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6 points

They can try and reinvent themselves all they’d like, but I can’t be bothered to keep up with their rebrandings if they can’t be bothered to commit and sell off the domain name. Something something sacrifice, something, law of Equivalent exchange. /s

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1 point

Didn’t the N stand for Netflix?

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You do know that FAANG is an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, not a type of company. Saying “…like most FANGs [sic] where themselves only decades ago” makes no sense as far as I can read it.

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My phone keyboard spelling aside, when the acronym was first coined, correct, but it seems to have sence devolved into more of a colloquialism for large scale tech related corporations, outliving the precise corporate restructuring that once comprised the old acronym. At least that’s what I’ve experienced in my workplaces, as well as the comments here:

Was there a equivalent house hold colloquialism for IBM, HP, Xerox, Bell System, etc. back in the day?

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I my experience the people running large companies are idiots who got their position by brown nosing the right people so it doesn’t really surprise me. Google is pretty well known too for coming up with stupid ideas they scrap in a few years

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7 points

Reminds me of the CEO saying that they don’t play video games but are behind stadia.

I called it in my circle that it would be shut down in roughly 3 years.

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4 points

Hopefully this is just another idea they scrap and they don’t follow through with it.

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11 points

They want to close the AI market

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5 points

Eh… nothing’s happening with Twitter outside of Elon being dumb as hell, as per usual.

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