Glenn Ellingson
@geewiz.bsky.social
Humans gonna human. Gotta love 'em anyway, and maybe try to help out a bit...
Correct. Hosting this stuff itself is not very net profitable; that is not the incentive here. Notice that the “announcement” was in the form of a letter to Jordan’s committee. This is just YT caving to a dangerous government to dodge threats of meddling. I worked on this stuff inside a platform
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Correct. Hosting this stuff itself is not very net profitable; that is not the incentive here. Notice that the “announcement” was in the form of a letter to Jordan’s committee. This is just YT caving to a dangerous government to dodge threats of meddling. I worked on this stuff inside a platform
This is actually my field; this piece of reporting is a lazy summary of an interesting paper, albeit one with very real limits - including that it had LLM actors, not human participants. Algorithmic fixes in real world usage can very significantly affect (improve or degrade) our online experiences
August 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is actually my field; this piece of reporting is a lazy summary of an interesting paper, albeit one with very real limits - including that it had LLM actors, not human participants. Algorithmic fixes in real world usage can very significantly affect (improve or degrade) our online experiences
One crazy old man here saying “just give me the transcripts, doesn’t anyone read anymore??”
July 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
One crazy old man here saying “just give me the transcripts, doesn’t anyone read anymore??”
I write paper checks AND drive a stick shift... and I'm a young'un, several months younger than you are!
(I also drive an electric car and build systems for ecommerce and internet platforms... it's yes and, not either or!)
(I also drive an electric car and build systems for ecommerce and internet platforms... it's yes and, not either or!)
May 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I write paper checks AND drive a stick shift... and I'm a young'un, several months younger than you are!
(I also drive an electric car and build systems for ecommerce and internet platforms... it's yes and, not either or!)
(I also drive an electric car and build systems for ecommerce and internet platforms... it's yes and, not either or!)
No no this is a perfect use of AI for efficiency: this is the most efficient way to tell your customers to go F themselves, you don't care....
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
No no this is a perfect use of AI for efficiency: this is the most efficient way to tell your customers to go F themselves, you don't care....
Only figured out that one when the friend eventually jogged up and said "hey, what are you doing?" -- and when I explained, he checked his pockets...
January 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Only figured out that one when the friend eventually jogged up and said "hey, what are you doing?" -- and when I explained, he checked his pockets...
Once, a friend accidentally brought them with him while running, and I spent 20 minutes searching a specific spot in the bushes on the side of a road where FindMe *swore* they were (and I had biked past there earlier, so it was vaguely plausible).
January 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Once, a friend accidentally brought them with him while running, and I spent 20 minutes searching a specific spot in the bushes on the side of a road where FindMe *swore* they were (and I had biked past there earlier, so it was vaguely plausible).
FindMy knew they were "with me" but I walked the whole house 5 times and it couldn't point me directionally, and the sound it eventually deigned to play was so faint that I could tell when I was in the right room but STILL could not pinpoint them. This is my typical experience.
January 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
FindMy knew they were "with me" but I walked the whole house 5 times and it couldn't point me directionally, and the sound it eventually deigned to play was so faint that I could tell when I was in the right room but STILL could not pinpoint them. This is my typical experience.
Block and ignore, man. Don’t give the trolls oxygen.
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Block and ignore, man. Don’t give the trolls oxygen.
Do you have specific performance/reliability/bias criteria in mind? We did, and we met them or we didn't launch (and we "unlaunched" if standards or performance changed). Not perfectly, of course. But there were a lot of subject matter, data, and ML experts making those decisions.
December 3, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Do you have specific performance/reliability/bias criteria in mind? We did, and we met them or we didn't launch (and we "unlaunched" if standards or performance changed). Not perfectly, of course. But there were a lot of subject matter, data, and ML experts making those decisions.
I will also, with respect, challenge the description of Meta's AI detection as "hamfisted." Content moderation at scale without errors is impossible -- whether done with AI or even (given infinite staff and resources) by humans. (Humans disagree with each other and make mistakes too.)
December 3, 2024 at 9:41 PM
I will also, with respect, challenge the description of Meta's AI detection as "hamfisted." Content moderation at scale without errors is impossible -- whether done with AI or even (given infinite staff and resources) by humans. (Humans disagree with each other and make mistakes too.)
To see Mark Zuckerberg & Nick Clegg now highlighting only false positives -- and ignoring false negatives -- to cozy up to the current political regime is, frankly, pretty disgusting. Pure politicking, IMO
December 3, 2024 at 9:40 PM
To see Mark Zuckerberg & Nick Clegg now highlighting only false positives -- and ignoring false negatives -- to cozy up to the current political regime is, frankly, pretty disgusting. Pure politicking, IMO
Speaking as someone who was there, I respectfully disagree that Meta overstepped during covid. The tradeoffs are challenging, of course, and reasonable people will disagree on specific policy decisions. But all work was undertaken with clear and explicit weighing of competing principles.
December 3, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Speaking as someone who was there, I respectfully disagree that Meta overstepped during covid. The tradeoffs are challenging, of course, and reasonable people will disagree on specific policy decisions. But all work was undertaken with clear and explicit weighing of competing principles.
My favorite analogy is: would you eat a package of chips you saw randomly floating past you in the gutter? News quality is important just like food quality. Get it from somewhere you trust.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:31 AM
My favorite analogy is: would you eat a package of chips you saw randomly floating past you in the gutter? News quality is important just like food quality. Get it from somewhere you trust.
We built that same intervention at Meta. Tested well. Not sure if it’s still in use
December 3, 2024 at 1:30 AM
We built that same intervention at Meta. Tested well. Not sure if it’s still in use
Yeah, our team tried to do the VR meeting thing; novel, kinda interesting once, but nope & we stopped
November 23, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Yeah, our team tried to do the VR meeting thing; novel, kinda interesting once, but nope & we stopped
As a social media safety professional, 💯. Social media, especially open threaded (aka "twiitterlike") social media is COMPLETELY unsuitable for getting news, discussing politics, and especially any form of deliberation. Just have fun!
November 23, 2024 at 2:32 AM
As a social media safety professional, 💯. Social media, especially open threaded (aka "twiitterlike") social media is COMPLETELY unsuitable for getting news, discussing politics, and especially any form of deliberation. Just have fun!
Totally different system, with different goals, at bsky. Bsky does minimal required moderation in-house and provides really cool tools for others to build (and easily share to other users) custom labeling and feeds. (Maybe 'cause they have 10 engineers not 10K+ like Meta....)
November 22, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Totally different system, with different goals, at bsky. Bsky does minimal required moderation in-house and provides really cool tools for others to build (and easily share to other users) custom labeling and feeds. (Maybe 'cause they have 10 engineers not 10K+ like Meta....)
You might be onto something. I worked on Instagram back in the pandemic days... but have never once posted 😅. Honestly, I felt that a lot of people in that company did not really understand their products -- just their team metrics.
November 22, 2024 at 5:33 AM
You might be onto something. I worked on Instagram back in the pandemic days... but have never once posted 😅. Honestly, I felt that a lot of people in that company did not really understand their products -- just their team metrics.
Hang in there, you're all doing great! I remember scaling pressures at PayPal loooong ago, when we tracked how many days until the site would be hard down due to organic growth overloading our non-sharded database architecture that we could only scale by "can anyone sell us a bigger server??" (heh)
November 22, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Hang in there, you're all doing great! I remember scaling pressures at PayPal loooong ago, when we tracked how many days until the site would be hard down due to organic growth overloading our non-sharded database architecture that we could only scale by "can anyone sell us a bigger server??" (heh)