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@jeffjarvis
The look on my face as I logged into the workspace today must have mirrored your own; wasn’t expecting this latest turn of events! (Disclosure: my very tangential work with a large Redmond, WA based computing and software firm has gotten pretty interesting in the AI field lately in regard to learning the different kinds of tech in this arena.)

If nothing else, it’s a good time to catch up on all the different strains of AI be it generative, LLM, search/task based and so on and like @osma states, OpenAI, Microsoft are just two of the many players in the field. It’s the Wild West stage of the technology with being only a year in, and we’ll probably be in awe of whatever comes down the pike in the next year, I’m sure.

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@w7voa She will be missed here in Georgia for sure. 😿

@eleanorskelton@newsie.social 
I’d say it might have more to do with the actual content of their posts attracting “certain types” than the medium they’re posting on. If Bluesky is the alternative, they will soon find they’re also gonna get more of the same once those same kinds of folks see their posts. Posting on the open internet means you need to be more thick-skinned/ready2ban|block|moderate. Or just do what I’m doing and host your own spot and DIY everything so you can sidestep the foolishness like: