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2024

Dealing with your AI-obsessed co-worker (TikTok). The latest in Alberta 🤖 Tech's excellent series of skits:

You asked the CEO what he thinks of our project? Oh, you asked ChatGPT to pretend to be our CEO and then asked what he thought of our project. I don't think that counts.

# 29th July 2024, 3:44 pm / ai, chatgpt, tiktok

“Link In Bio” is a slow knife (via) Anil Dash writing in 2019 about how Instagram’s “link in bio” thing (where users cannot post links to things in Instagram posts or comments, just a single link field in their bio) is harmful for linking on the web.

Today it’s even worse. TikTok has the same culture, and LinkedIn and Twitter both algorithmically de-boost anything with a URL in it, encouraging users to share screenshots (often unsourced) rather than linking to content and reducing their distribution.

It’s gross.

# 12th May 2024, 2:15 pm / anil-dash, linkedin, links, social-media, twitter, tiktok