Ryan Mac

Why does my favorite shit poster not have a blue check?

This is an incongruous system, and I need to reform this.

And so now everyone has a blue check, and now that everyone has a blue check, nothing matters.

Third thing on your list of biggest changes.

It's AI.

It's the use of Grok on the platform, which has created...

Fake content, it's created non-consensual sexual images.

Pornographic content, anti-Semitic content.

And he would say that that is non-woke AI.

So, you know, it's the only truth-telling AI there is compared to the chat GPTs, clods, and Geminis of the world.

Yeah.

The algorithm can be pretty brutal if you go to the For You page on there.

I've seen murder videos.

I've seen fight videos.

just some kind of low-brow content that is pushed to the fore because it's engaging, and it seems like that platform just maximizes engagement.

And anyone who's spent any time working or reporting on social media knows that if you're just maximizing for engagement, you're gonna get some pretty terrible stuff that pops up in that feed.

And that's what it seems like they're maximizing for, and that's the kind of result that we're getting now.

It's no longer public, so it doesn't have to reveal its numbers anymore.

But the kind of breadcrumbs that we do get from reporting inside the company show that advertising is cratered.

This acquisition, as disastrous as it was for him, doesn't hurt him at all.