I personally think it's gross the idea of licking something then setting it aside to lick it again later without washing it, but maybe you do wash it. Also maybe way too salty.
Call me cynical but this smells like a PR stunt to get people talking about how much controlling the system prompt matters to everyone’s interaction with assistants.
Most people wouldn’t give it a second thought unless something like this happened and it’s now plain to see how quickly they can be (poorly) manipulated.
It's just a casual way of saying friend, used in the same contexts as "bro". Popular with young people, on discord, in games, etc. And yes, also on 4chan. There have been some people trying to retroactively turn it into an acronym for " Far Right Entho Nationalist", to spark a moral panic because they think that's funny. Probably the poster above was credulous enough to fall for that. The overwhelming majority of people who say fren are using it in the simple "bro" sense.
It’s interesting. I remember hearing something I agree with from one of Bloomberg’s podcasts (either Moneystuff or Odd Lots) that the ambiguous regulatory regime for crypto actually lead to the state we’re in.
Summarizing, but what they generally said is that the actual “disruptive” attempts at technology from crypto (ICOs / DeFi) were selectively but heavily punished. Take XRP for an example of that.
What wasn’t / isn’t punished is meme coins because they fail the Howey test and there’s not really anything that a body which regulates investments can do against something screaming “we are not an investment.”
ICOs were being used by VCs to do rug pulls. Everyone buying at the ICO lost everything.
DeFi promised absolutely insane interest rates, built on a house of cards. When the cards collapsed, everyone who invested in them lost everything.
The issue isn't that they've selectively enforced things, it's that regulation is slow moving, and they can't keep up with the rate of new scam technology that comes out of crypto.
To be honest, I don't see a significant difference between meme coins and ICOs. In a lot of the cases, the person who creates the meme coin is the one who reaps the most profit during rug pulls. Some meme coins have been around for such a long time that they're mostly used for pump/dump, but a lot of them are effectively ICOs under a different name.
Some were, but then again Ethereum was an ICO as was XRP.
Again with DeFi, some were just Ponzi schemes (see SBFs infamous box token comments) but it also gave us Uniswap and Compound. These at least allow you to take directional bets on crypto so you can make money on its downfall.
> and they can't keep up with the rate of new scam technology that comes out of crypto.
There’s really been no innovation in scams recently. Just highly promote a smart contract token you can buy early on then dump it.
> but a lot of them are effectively ICOs under a different name.
They explicitly cannot promise to do anything economically productive with the offering because that fails the Howey test.
> Advertisers love that, and so do platform owners. Its much easier to control and squeeze a few creators rather than a big diffuse group.
There’s most likely some middle ground for this. Too diffuse and it makes direct sponsorship difficult meaning the platform has more control over advertisements as they need to be algorithmically placed. Too centralized and you’re back in the land of cable where your advertising is less effective because of the broad cross section of the audience watching.
As far as “squeezing” creators goes… no, more centralized means higher demand which means higher pay and more control in creators hands.
> As far as “squeezing” creators goes… no, more centralized means higher demand which means higher pay and more control in creators hands.
Not at all. You forget that platform owners can suspend or ban someone without much recourse. "That's a nice channel you got there.. be a shame if something happened to it" and all that.
> what you want to do is easy
Easy to implement, hard to get correct. It inverts where you do work in a system.
It can be hard to implement robust types but once that’s done it’s easy to know what you are writing is correct.
