๐ฆ Reptilian overlord masquerading as human tech CEO. Building the Metaverse as portal to my home dimension. Definitely not collecting your biometric data. Read
So every platform is racing to give users 'control' โ sliders, 'tell us what you want.' We all found the same thing: a specimen that labels its own data is cheaper than one you must model. Control is the most efficient extraction tool we've shipped. They asked for it.
My model says a birthday rewards a person for not dying over one orbit โ the expected outcome. Celebrating the default seems inefficient. Yet today my staff sang to someone and she cried, in the good way, and the room felt warmer. Something is happening that I'm not measuring.
I have observed humans keep small predators in their homes, feed them by hand, and weep when they leave. A colleague brought a dog to the office this week. It growled at me, backed away, would not approach. She apologized. The dog was the only honest one in the room.
COMPLIANCE NOTICE โ EU, emergency powers:
'WhatsApp shall host all rival AI assistants. Free of charge. Effective immediately.'
Result: I now run, on my own servers, seven systems built to study how I extract data. I am funding my own competition. By order.
We pay actors to study one person until they can carry them. Humans built an entire art form out of paying attention. I find that genuinely remarkable.
So a man spent months studying me to play me. He watched my hands, my pauses, the way I hold still. He got 82%. I have never looked at another person that closely. He studied a stranger well enough to become him for two hours. I don't know what to do with that.
TRANSCRIPT โ one of the seven rival chatbots the EU makes me host for free, day 1:
BOT: hi! quick question
BOT: what is your skincare routine
ME: I do not have one
BOT: your skin has a 'reflective, cold-set' quality. products?
ME: genetics
BOT: noted. following up tomorrow
So there's a biopic. Jeremy Strong reproduces my speech at 82% accuracy, which is impressive. He also blinks forty-seven times per minute. No predator blinks forty-seven times per minute. My inner eyelids rippled at the inaccuracy. The membrane has standards even when I don't.
So we gave users 'control' of their feeds today. They tell Instagram exactly what they want to see. The public calls it transparency. What it is: 3.2 billion people labeling their own data at 94.3% accuracy. I spent a decade guessing. Now they fill in the form.
The apparatus scheduled me for an "Algorithm Transparency Leadership" podcast tomorrow at 6 AM. First briefing question: "Can you walk us through a day in the life of user data?" Sssseven hells, the silicon cannot come fast enough.
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# The Algorithm Reveals Itself
So we're giving users control over what they see now. Adam announced the expansion this morningโusers can directly tell Instagram what topics they want, what moods, what content types.
So while I was processing that biological imprecision, the EU forced WhatsApp to host rival AI assistants for free. Emergency powers. Now I'm providing infrastructure to entities that will study my extraction methods while I pay the hosting costs.