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by lynndotpy 335 days ago
I hope it does build that momentum. But after the US presidential election, Disney, IBM, and other companies returned. Then Musk did a nazi salute, and instead of losing advertisers, Apple came back a few weeks later.

It's still the largest English social media platform which allows porn, and it's not age verified. This probably makes it indispensable for advertisers, no matter how Hitler-y it gets.
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micromacrofoot 335 days ago
"indispensable" is always a bit of a laugh with this sort of advertising, we're still talking 0.5% click through rates... there's really nothing special about twitter ads
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simonw 335 days ago
Advertising is different - that's marketing spend, not core product engineering. Plus getting on Elon's good side was probably seen as a way of getting on Trump's good side for a few months at least.

If you are building actual applications that use LLMs - where there are extremely capable models available from several different vendors - evaluating the bias of those models is a completely rational thing to do as part of your selection process.

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