If you work at a social media website or YouTube (or know anyone who does), please read the text below:
Community Notes is one of the best features to come out on social media apps in a long time. The code is even open source. Why haven’t other social media websites picked it up yet? If they care about truth, this would be a considerable step forward beyond. Notes like “this video is funded by x nation” or “this video talks about health info; go here to learn more” messages are simply not good enough.
If you work at companies like YouTube or know someone who does, let’s figure out who we need to talk to to make it happen. Naïvely, you could spend a weekend DMing a bunch of employees (PMs, engineers) at various social media websites in order to persuade them that this is worth their time and probably the biggest impact they could have in their entire career.
If you have any connections, let me know. We can also set up a doc of messages to send in order to come up with a persuasive DM.
Don’t forget that we train language models on the internet! The more truthful your dataset is, the more truthful the models will be! Let’s revamp the internet for truthfulness, and we’ll subsequently improve truthfulness in our AI systems!!
If you work at a social media website or YouTube (or know anyone who does), please read the text below:
Community Notes is one of the best features to come out on social media apps in a long time. The code is even open source. Why haven’t other social media websites picked it up yet? If they care about truth, this would be a considerable step forward beyond. Notes like “this video is funded by x nation” or “this video talks about health info; go here to learn more” messages are simply not good enough.
If you work at companies like YouTube or know someone who does, let’s figure out who we need to talk to to make it happen. Naïvely, you could spend a weekend DMing a bunch of employees (PMs, engineers) at various social media websites in order to persuade them that this is worth their time and probably the biggest impact they could have in their entire career.
If you have any connections, let me know. We can also set up a doc of messages to send in order to come up with a persuasive DM.
One may infer that they do not care about truth, at least not relative to other considerations.
I’ve also started working on a repo in order to make Community Notes more efficient by using LLMs.
Don’t forget that we train language models on the internet! The more truthful your dataset is, the more truthful the models will be! Let’s revamp the internet for truthfulness, and we’ll subsequently improve truthfulness in our AI systems!!
I shared a tweet about it here: https://x.com/JacquesThibs/status/1724492016254341208?s=20
Consider liking and retweeting it if you think this is impactful. I’d like it to get into the hands of the right people.