Serious question: Is all of the Muse noise actually organic, or is there a giant astroturfing campaign? Like John Gruber has endlessly talked about Muse since its dropped, often in a weirdly glowing fashion, and it's incredibly weird given that a) he is almost always hyper-critical of Meta, b) It isn't Apple, c) nothing about Muse is unique or novel or differentiating.

I don't get it. Is Meta handing out big $ for everyone to make Muse happen?

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bix6 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isn’t everyone a paid shill now? This is the influencer economy. Get influenced ya bishhhhh

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zzzoom 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Meta will always do whatever it takes to get more users.

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taterbase 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you tried it?

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llm_nerd an hour ago | parent [-]

Of course not. Meta is a corrosive cancer on society, they are a disinformation torrent for an idiocracy, and they should be banned as government propaganda everywhere not named American America of America(Trump IncTM).

I cannot even deign to imagine someone trusting that company with an iota of their personal information, or that it would do anything constructive with it.

But I've seen enough people (presumably) astroturfing about it to know what their latest desperate "we matter" pitch is, and it just doesn't sound compelling at all. Certainly not to warrant the constant citations.

	▲	simianwords an hour ago \| parent [-]
		come on man have a bit of theory of mind. people just don't care that much about privacy and Meta has a half decent product. Personal agents are here to stay and they are the future. It works and obviously its going to permeate.

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colesantiago 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes.

DF and their ilk, are irrelevant so they need to talk it up to get their blogs, and podcasts relevant again in the 'AI' conversation.

You would have thought that Gruber would be talking about their own expert subject matter i.e. Apple more, but since 2016 he has been going off the Apple expert opinion into Politics, Trump, AI, etc and not mainly (or exclusively) Apple.

I don't know why anybody still follows DF anymore as in the age of video, social media and podcasts the DF blog has fallen off.

That being said, on Muse, I will reserve my judgement there.

Wait till Meta's earnings to see if Muse has got any numbers to share to see if it made a difference.