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I read this in print (via Printernet’s exceptional curation). It beautifully captures the spirit of print. And Kai is a really good interviewer.

lovely, from my fave restaurant in London

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

When a restaurant gets a Michelin star: Customer expectations rise, employee wage demands rise, suppliers expect you to pay more, and the restaurant is more likely to go out of business in the ensuing years.

YT is at risk of being a place where only the MrBeasts of the internet that can afford hyper-professionalized content beling or for sub-par AI junk thrown together by bots.

But here's what most creators ignore: overwhelming volumes of information isn't value. It's stress.