anyone interested in collaborating on a project for multiplayer LLMs and the future of social media? think people working together to make a social media feed, a bit like twitch plays pokemon. I'm looking for a frontend dev to partner with on a prototype project, making some chat UI components and some multiplayer chat to video. I've got a decent budget for infrastructure and have built a whole api that already exists and could work with this. it would just be a thing we build and release, with a couple thousand bucks worth of infrastructure credits I can throw at it. feel free to shoot me a dm if you're interested in chatting!

So it would basically be a feed of AI generated content that is based on prompts decided by groups of real people?

No, going weirder than that (hopefully). Like search the web, download videos, search inside of them and live remix them

But they're making it using an LLM, no?

Thinking is there’s a countdown, and yeah, you can @ the LLM and it can present options / vote

and then after the timer goes off it spits out into the the feed and people comment/vote/like etc?

Sure! Not totally thought through yet. I’m trying to get away from isolating feeds

just trying to understand your vision

Yeah ! And it’s totally half baked and dumb but that’s kinda the point

but for sure there's other people basically doing that right now on X with grok

Got a link?

just not as purpose built for collaborative media

Ahh yes, and what… an experience

yeah, I don't really use X, but I'm aware things happening in industry

Yeah ideally there’d be interesting constraints somehow

well, I don't think I'd be super interested in helping to build this, but I'm happy to give you feedback to ideas as you work on it

Like maybe by default the LLM is obsessed with something and you have to convince it otherwise before a timer runs out… and thanks! Even just this is useful!

yeah, I think I get the vision. I think there's a seed of a good idea here... but also a minefield of bad ones

Agreed

I personally have mixed feelings about too much AI stuff. I use the tools too in various capacities, and they can be fun too, but I don't really want them to take over everything. And I do think we need to be aware of the energy impact and all kinds of stuff that makes AI ethically gray.

Yes agreed. Thank you.

that said, I played with an idea for doing AI based oracle cards and readings that was kind of fun, and maybe could be a decent concept with work, but it did also help me see firsthand what the limits are.

Oh nice! I did an I Ching reading generator as an early project

AI image generation has gotten better but its still slop

Yes agreed, I think there’s also the ability to analyze existing video and remix it, or render new video with non generative ai methods

and every time it can do new/better things they are popular for a liitle - but then I think people become averse to it

Yeah, there’s certainly a massive fomo and uncertainty about where the ceiling of capabilities is

I think there's enthusiasts who would enjoy this. there's people who would hate it (maybe even generate publicity!)

Hahahaa

but I get what you mean about creating an environment of playful collaboration

Yeah I’m genuinely worried about ai getting better at creating more effective feedback bubbles for people to get isolated in

and if you can capture that while avoiding the hazards, I see no reason not to play with the new AI tools that are popping up. I mean, where else is facebook and tiktok gonna get all of its AI content?