FIR #366: DIY GPT

Pundits are proclaiming social media dead (or dying), and they have data to back up their beliefs. If it's true, what does it mean -- for society, for networking, and for business? Neville and Shel examine the evidence and trends and discuss the implications in the monthly long-form episode for November. Also in this episode:

ChatGPT pauses new signups and other news
A look at ChatGPT's GPT Builder
The state of news on social media
Generative AI and journalism
A high-profile executive's fake Twitter accounts
In his Tech Report, Dan York talks about Twitter's woes, WhatsApp news, Automattic backing off Tumblr growth, and the Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year

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Pundits are proclaiming social media dead (or dying), and they have data to back up their beliefs. If it’s true, what does it mean — for society, for networking, and for business? Neville and Shel examine the evidence and trends and discuss the implications at the 7:03 mark of the monthly long-form episode for November. Also in this episode:

ChatGPT pauses new signups and other news (32:25)
A look at ChatGPT’s GPT Builder (38:57)
The state of news on social media (1:00:42)
Generative AI and journalism (1:12:54)
A high-profile executive’s fake Twitter accounts (1:17:07)
In his Tech Report, Dan York talks about Twitter’s woes, WhatsApp news, Automattic backing off Tumblr growth, and the Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year (51:28)

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The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, November 20.

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Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. You can catch up with both co-hosts on Neville’s blog and Shel’s blog. Neville’s Asides blog is also available.

Links from this episode:

Is Social Media Dying? What That Could Mean for Marketers
First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Social media is doomed to die
Sam Altman (@sama) on X
OpenAI Status – Incident History
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as capacity exceeded
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn’t “consistently candid in his communications with the board”
Neville Hobson (@nevillehobson) on Threads
OpenAI has put ChatGPT Plus sign-ups on pause
Introducing GPTs
With GPT Builder you can create your own personalised ChatGPT
Neville Hobson on LinkedIn: With GPT Builder you can create your own personalised ChatGPT
Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
The Best of OpenAI’s New GPTs, Ranked
The 23 Best GPTs of 2023 (Weekly Updates)
Is Threads winning the war with X?
Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users
Social media traffic to top news sites craters
Instagram head says Threads is ‘not going to amplify news on the platform’
Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or Unsubstantiated Claims Relating to the Israel-Hamas War
The hate speech problem on X: a test of conscience for users and brands
Telegraph journalists told use of ChatGPT will result in same sanctions as plagiarism
ChatGPT six months on: Insight from 12 news leaders on generative AI and journalism
Global State of the Media Report from Cision (PDF)
HBO Chief Casey Bloys Concedes Fake Twitter Accounts Were a “Very Dumb Idea”
HBO Bosses Used ‘Secret’ Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics
The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped (Published 2007)

Links from Dan York’s Report

How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
WhatsApp Privacy Checkup: Know the features and how to use it
WhatsApp releases new security features to protect users’ IP addresses
WhatsApp is adding a new way to voice chat with large groups
WhatsApp Adds New Audio Chat Option for Groups
Mark Zuckerberg Taps the Strengths of WhatsApp
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp is the ‘next chapter’ for Meta and could become a bedrock for business messaging
Tumblr is betting big on going small
Tumblr is downscaling after failing to ‘turn around’ the site
‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year
Hallucinate is Cambridge Dictionary AI-inspired word of 2023

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