Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

Analyst/ editorial manager @ISDGlobal by day; Medievalist by night | @FT reporter turned contributor | @Columbiajourn @OIIoxford @PembrokeOxford | DMs open

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

For @FTAlphaville, I went into the world of slopagandists: newsletter writers and 'social media influencers' shovelling coal into the AI hype train for those sweet advertising dollars. With thanks to @edzitron! https://t.co/X6uYAojhDH

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

The girls are fighting

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

@PunkXBT_ Absolutely, a case of "news" used to obscure activism/direction of bias.

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

This account, now rebranded as an anti-Indian geopolitical "news writer", is simply a political activist which supports the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (linked to killings of Hindus by Amnesty).

[🅰️SIADecoded @asia_decode2]

A 21-year-old Hindu man was killed instantly when a careless companion accidentally stabbed him in the heart.

It proves that giving deadly weapons to the untrained ends in tragedy.

The most shocking part is that it had happened right under the nose of the police.

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

@alys_key That's a very strange hallucination...the link goes to a fake BBC article.
I saw the same ads from this account this morning though they've since been deleted https://t.co/7PW2G8x0YO

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

Clifford and Hogarth mainlined the EA cult into the British administrative system. They cannot have believed how easy it would all be.

Cummings had already tapped Clifford to run his crank tank ARIA, giving it a beach head. ARIA now runs programmes with Renaissance Philanthropy, a massive EA operation.

[Evan DeSimone @MediaEvan]

Almost all of these news influencers build their brand by commenting on reporting done by real journalists at legacy outlets.

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

I read this and was violently thrown back to school days of laughing at those crazy Americans yelling that "Harry Potter is the devil"

https://t.co/GZU0dnXJEZ

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

I genuinely enjoy when people think being “studying magic” in an academic context means being a wizard. Buddy I wish

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

2 of 2) There’s a deluge of these things now, pretending not only to be from contemporary authors but dead ones as well: James Joyce, Agatha Christie etc. (And bad actors are also posing as publishing executives, btw.)

Please repost to help spread the word!

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address:

[email protected].

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

Not a fan of horseshoe theory but this is the same line as Raw Egg Nationalist:
https://t.co/3A3xdzigtW

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇮🇳 SAAR PLZ SAAR YOU GAVE ME CLEARANCE TO GO, SAAR, I AM SECOND ON THE LIST, SAAR YOU ARE FIRING AT ME?? WHY ARE YOU FIRING? I TURN AROUND SAAR, PLEASE DO NOT FIRE SAAR

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

Tweets like this are really bizarre to me, and feel like they’ve been beamed in from another dimension.

Let’s talk about “tech firms”.

Palantir is basically a consultancy - it really doesn’t have a technology moat.

Tesco and Nectar are vey unsexy, but they can do everything Palantir can do, and have been doing it for years.

By contrast, a lot of the ground breaking innovation in quantum, medical instruments and semiconductors is British, with quantum spin outs from hard science from our Universities turning into products and finding capital. If these are not “tech firms” they are nothing.

No shade intended at Legatum
or whatever you are called this week, but it’s really time the think tank world hired some people with science degrees, capable of appreciating what we invent here, and ask our genuine tech firms what they need to help them sell more incredible products.

Weatimsterland has zero tech or science cred today.

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

An AI-generated video with thousands of likes from what's obviously an account based in Pakistan pretending to be Afghan, glorious.

[National Resistance Front (NRF) 🇦🇫 @NRFMediaCell]

An Indian News anchor lost the cool while breaking the News that their rival Pakistan stopped the Iran war through their top notch diplomacy!

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

The comments are a goldmine too!

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

I think my favourite part is that the spelling suggests these RETVRN accounts are more familiar with a retail trading app than the original legend/Disney classic.

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

The smarminess seems pretty unwarranted from someone who fell so hard for NFTs and the Metaverse but I am sincerely curious: how many LLM-generated books have you have paid money for, read in full, and enjoyed?

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

Yet more evidence for the cargo cult nature of 'AI art': because real artists suffer from burn out, 'AI artists' must suffer from it too.

[Alex Utopia @alexutopia]

A lot of AI artists are burning out lately.

The tools became too easy,
and competition exploded.

I said this years ago:
being early means nothing.

Without vision or a story to tell,
all you're left with is novelty.

And novelty always fades.

[Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan @SVR13]

This post is genuinely indistinguishable from the content from Bangladeshis and Indians who charge $80 per fawning tweet.
https://t.co/X6uYAojhDH

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

This is an incredibly cool use of AI video.

History lessons become much more interesting when you’re walking through a historic scene with a guide.

The creator is doing a full series of these (chloe.vs.history on IG)

[alain servais @aservais1]

Inside the elaborate online world of computer-generated scams. The rise of AI has helped scammers build intricate networks of fake news and investment advice — with the aim to swindle customers out of millions. By @SVR13 #PayWall https://t.co/1rEilPCWDn via @ft

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This isn’t teaching. This what an amateur thinks expert teaching looks like.