Does anyone remember this meme from 2012 claiming to be the flow of Internet culture? Switch Twitter for Reddit, and you arguably have a similar chart, today (with some changes).

    Have TikTok, Instagram and X replaced it in the 2020s? If X is now at the top of the waterfall in the US, this puts a government official in control of future content creation, LLM algorithm learning material and news flow.

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    1. No-Donkey-8889 on

      In China, I guess there is no conspiracy though. The CCP controls the Internet openly and curates content generation at will.

      Naturally, this results in CCP approved genAI and LLM. Is this the US gubmint playing catch up?

    2. Is there really a conspiracy? It was an outdated site, and the owner was clearly ignoring it and running it as cheaply as possible. For yeats now it was getting noticeably worse with every addition. It was just running off shitty code and someone bumbled into hacking it and just sat on it for a year, apparently. It was inevitable with how disinterested the owner was

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