context : I’ve never called myself a Redditor nor a power user of Twitter. but I’ve had personal accounts on both since ~2011. and part of my new job is now helping manage twitter/x and reddit and linkedin for an AI company. I’d love to understand when and why AI Twitter became so relevant and important for the humans who care about AI? I’m curious because no matter how many bots and shady influencers there are, when I talk to colleagues and meet devs at events, the reality is A LOT OF THEM (would guess btw 50-60% are daily actives or at least weekly actives on twitter). yes, most humans consume content and never tweet(post), but it’s because there are real humans following AI twitter that it continues to matter. I have also heard some inklings that ppl are getting frustrated and starting to churn, but at least at my company people share Twitter links on Slack 10X more often than links from Linkedin or IG or mainstream media reports. Prior to starting a new job in AI, I assumed that the post-Elon era of Twitter/X was simply going to be a slow and unexciting march to nowhere, just like Yahoo of the 2010s, and would hang around for awhile but never actually “matter” again. But then within a week of starting my new job I learned that it is actually relevant in AI. the core question: why is everyone in AI still obsessed with twitter? has it always been this way, e.g. since ChatGPT launched in Nov2022? or was their an inflection point with GPT-4 or 4o? is it related to twitter being big for Crypto and a ton of Crypto people became AI people? perhaps most importantly, anyone get the sense that the relevance of AI twitter is waning now that it’s so easy for “influencers” to produce credible slop in a few minutes and therefore feeds are full of never-ending slop that’s actually kind of interesting but still ultimately slop. submitted by /u/mtns_of_magic
Originally posted by u/mtns_of_magic on r/ArtificialInteligence