João Mainardi

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Kalshi and Polymarket are full of bots. A massive number of fake accounts with zero bets are commenting to skew and manipulate the results. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had fake accounts betting with the same goal as well.

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“About 49% of U.S. adults have ever used an AI chatbot. Some broader surveys put it closer to 64% if you count any use in the last six months.
Meanwhile only around 2–4.5% of people actually pay for a ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude subscription.”

Most of those who pay are still just using it for regular search/questions, research, image gen, and other basic stuff. Free plans cover that for the majority of people, and they’re pretty limited once you try to do anything heavier. What’s so advanced you can realistically do on free tiers?

The people around me have heavily adopted AI, but that doesn’t make me blind to the rest of the country or the world. And keep in mind the data above is from the US, the most consumerist country in the world.

Even then, half of adults still don’t use these tools at all, and a lot of the ones who do are just using them for simple tasks. Your experience and perception of the world isn’t everyone else’s.

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In a world full of easily replicable digital experiences, analog is what will set brands and experiences apart.

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I know this is hard to control, but the government should enforce bot control laws on social media. We’ve gotten used to bots as part of daily scrolling, but this is not normal, should not be normalized, and has many negative consequences.

Social media companies benefit from the extra interactions, but they should be held accountable.

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@MihaiDolganiuc @facebook @instagram Be careful with people recommending random individuals to help; they are scammers. Your best bet is either direct Meta support, which sucks, or a high-spend ads and social media agency with ongoing Meta rep access that may assist. Good luck!

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@OpenAINewsroom China?

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@tobi Now I'm automating my crazy spending habits!

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@Polymarket Good. I don’t like that rat and I’ve never agreed with him until now. Horses are amazing animals; basically big dogs for anyone who’s actually been around them. They don’t deserve to be mistreated, stuck in traffic and heat all day. They deserve better.

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@heinenbros They detected you’re in CA, you’re not a criminal, and your mag capacity exceeds the 10-round limit. lol

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@Polymarket The CIA said: The Kool-Aid pineapples are no longer working. Time to deploy the Sour Patch chicken wings!

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@yagiznizipli @spacexai @benjitaylor @singhai @dinkin_flickaa @Baconbrix Thanks Yagiz! I also noticed that tagging “@ SpaceXSI” automatically changes it to the old “@ SpaceXAI” handle.

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Hey @spacexai @benjitaylor @singhai @dinkin_flickaa @Baconbrix @yagiznizipli, quick bug report:

Tapping/clicking the “SpaceXSI” profile still links to the old @spacexai handle URL, which no longer exists and shows “Something went wrong.”
This has been happening since the handle change.

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@finkd The Meta team has been in the kitchen quietly cooking. 👨🏻‍🍳

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I don’t cook; I only order delivery or eat out because I genuinely dislike cooking and value my time more. This lets me eat whatever I want whenever I want. That doesn’t mean I eat unhealthily, I don’t cheap out.

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@nizzyabi For real! I've tried them all, and they're mediocre.

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@dakdevs @nizzyabi Nice, this is promising!

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Never mind, power is back. LFG!!

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How beautiful. Just what I needed. Power outage at Miami World Center. SMH

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Legacy media is useless propaganda garbage! Always research and explore multiple sources when seeking truth.

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I don’t think people simply misunderstood, the original post just lacked context you probably omitted on purpose to get more reactions (and that worked).

Way more people would’ve agreed if you’d added the agent part to the original post.

I agree agents will spin up software on demand whenever possible, but we’re not there yet (ofc). AI still needs to be fed human knowledge to improve; it doesn’t train itself autonomously.

Compute will get cheaper, and cheaper, so that’s a plus, and will facilitate all this becoming true.

But I think we overestimate how well most people can explain exactly what they need and how reliably AI will understand their goals without friction.

Regulations and privacy are another real barrier, lots of people and companies won’t feel comfortable (or legally won’t be able to) share certain data with AI providers.

Then there’s adaptability. Plenty of people outside our bubble are pretty closed-minded and struggle to adopt new tools and workflows at all.

Established and niche software companies will still survive because of their domain knowledge, industry experience, proprietary data, and regulatory expertise, licenses, etc. I think they’ll mostly sell access to that through AI platforms rather than disappear.

And when AGI/ASI arrives, all this will change once again.