Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. This is the last issue of the year. May your new year be filled with non-performative competence, pluralism, reason, universalism and vigor (a contrarian hope to be sure). News AI Marketing Hallucinations:…
Welcome to the New and Improved Platformonomics. Subscribe to get this weekly newsletter and other posts delivered via email. The OpenAI Soap Opera Good thing I was off last week and didn’t add to all the effervescent interim takes on this saga. What a clown show. My guess is season 2 of everyone’s favorite new…
Everyone needs their own homestead on the Internet: a place to opine, ponder, share, expound, sermonize, debate, learn, connect, gather feedback, be found, pursue passions, do business, and whatever else keeps you out of trouble (or in it). But exercising dominion over your personal plot of digital turf requires some effort, and shouldn’t be outsourced…
Subscribe now before Elon colocates Starship test launches with Twitter. Scuttling Titan(ic), Scaling Olympus? The Amazon Generative AI soap opera just never ends (and, credit to them, they have acknowledged, more than once, it is a long distance race they have barely started). Anthropic won’t commit to a monogamous relationship with Amazon. Titan is looking…
Subscribe now before Elon MuX does something really erratic! Why Not Cut Out the Middleman and Just Name AI Safety Rules After Dystopian Science Fiction Movies? Previous: “An iron curtain has descended across the continent”, AI Regulation: Move Fast and Regulate Things, Italy Makes OpenAI Offer They Can’t Refuse Existential Risk Now Has a Precise…