Posts by urist

Thank the bots, your blue check is back on X

It was never about verification

Leaving aside most of Steve's comment, it is indeed true that the old verification was never about verification, it was always about status.

To get verified, you needed either

1) Be a journalist with a well known news organization (that probably had some partnership/deal with Twitter, i.e NYT)

2) Be a corporation

3) Have a PR team ready to nag Twitter to death

The original blue checkmark was less of an indicator of verification (since many people with hundreds of thousands of followers never got verification) and more a symbol of a twat. In fact, if Twitter didn't like what you said, but didn't want to ban you, they could take away your blue checkmark, as they did to some well known actor (whose name escapes me, was apparently in Star Trek)

So I for one don't really care for the commoditization of the blue checkmark, because it was always a commodity, just the price has gone down.

Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you're smart enough for the real world

Did people actually look at the Twitter pictures?

If you look closely, all the later actions of Auto-GPT are "do_nothing". As a comment above said, it's basically roleplaying at that point as an election manipulator.

My guess (from reading about Auto-GPT a little) is that it has a finite amount of technical actions it can take actually that are programmed in by real people. And if you are going to program all of this election manipulation stuff anyway, why rely on Auto-GPT?

I could see it being used as a information gathering tool though.