Three-Article Series and Substack Notes | On my feeds #3
Recent updates form Creative Blocks and my experiments with Substack Notes
Hello readers. I am back again to share some highlights, important events, news, tweets and posts of the week. In the field of AI and Tech, lots of stuff happens around the clock. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this issue of On My Feeds (OMF)
Enough talking. Now let’s jump right in.
Highlights
Joining Notes on Substack
The past week was filled with tussles between Substack and Twitter. As you might know, Twitter blocked all the links of Subatck from the platform earlier this week. Meaning that tweets that have substack links cant be retweeted or liked. The CEOs of both platforms, Elon Musk and Chris Best, indirectly had a heavy battle of words.
This came in around when Substack announced their new feature called Notes. Which, I won’t deny, seem very similar to Twitter. Speculations have arisen over Substack on whether it is creating a platform that competes and becomes a potent rival to Twitter.
The case started when many Substack writers on Twitter (including Matt Taibbi pointed out that Substack links were getting blocked on the Twitter platform. According to Matt, he was told that it was due to a ‘dispute’ over the new Suybstack Notes feature.1
To this proceeded to Elon Musk responded by saying that his accusations were false -
Now turns out his allegations were misleading and false as well, and this was pointed out by the Twitter Community Notes (this fight seemed hilarious in my opinion on the way it turned out). Turns out, the official Substack Account and Substack Links were indeed being blocked by Twitter, and no - Matt was never an employee of Substack, the CEO of Substack mentioned this itself on (guess what) Notes.
Chris Best, CEO of Substack, mentioned this in the beta version of Notes
Musk ended up unfollowing the ‘Twitter Fiels’ Matt on Twitter, and Matt ironically seems to leave Twitter and reportedly joined the Donald Trump-affiliated social platform “Truth”.2
“We’re glad to see that the suppression of Substack publications on Twitter appears to be over. This is the right move for writers, who deserve the freedom to share their work,” Substack later wrote on Twitter after these restrictions were lift offlifted off
And then after all the hype and chaos, Notes was finally launched for everyone on Substack.
I am trying out this new platform. For one, this feels like just another Twitter alternative but with the option to edit the posts. However, there are no Ads on Notes.
While Notes may look like familiar social media feeds, the key difference is in what you don’t see. The Substack network runs on paid subscriptions, not ads. This changes everything - Substack mentions in Introducing Substack Notes Post
I urge my readers who have spent a considerable amount of time on SUbstack to experiment with notes as well and interact with their favourite newsletter authors.
I am pretty hopeful about this new platform and the opportunities it will bring to both the writer and readers.
for now, look at my first Note on Substack. -
If you want to join the notes as well, check this post out to get started -
Three-Part Series on Bill Gates Letter “The Age of AI has begun”
This is my first long essay on Subsatck. A few weeks ago Bill Gates published his 7-page long blog on AI and his predictions for the future of generative AI. I considered the letter important and pretty insightful for anyone who is willing to know what AI can do. If you are a regular reader of the Creative Block, you would know that I share posts about AI now and then.
Though the letter was insightful, it was too generalised in my opinion. since it is an important piece of writing, I thought to analyse Gates's predictions and scrutinise the letter further - giving my opinions and noting key events alongside.
The whole series was of 3 posts, covering major segments of the letter one by one. I had fun writing them, and I hope the readers also got to know a more detailed overview of the letter.
This was also a successful 3-post series as all three posts in the series were published on Towards AI publication on time, something which is impressive in my opinion.
Here are the posts for you to check out -
And here is a supplementary post as well to the series -
On my Twitter Feeds
Here are some of the worthy tweets that I want to share ( and apparently the embeds are disabled)
https://twitter.com/neurosp1ke/status/1646824440058068992?s=20
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1645609531240587265?s=20
https://twitter.com/mpshanahan/status/1646985700942684165?s=20
https://twitter.com/psb_dc/status/1646934694431170579?s=20
Have any interesting tweets to share? Tweet it at me - @its_aditya_an1l
On my News Feeds
Google invests $300 million in Anthropic as race to compete with ChatGPT heats up by Sharon Goldman on VentureBeat
To achieve AGI, we need new perspectives on intelligence by Ben Dickson on TheNextWeb
Banning ChatGPT will do more harm than good by Rohan Mehta on MIT Technology Review
Most Jobs Soon To Be ‘Influenced’ By Artificial Intelligence, Research Out Of OpenAI And University Of Pennsylvania Suggests by Joe McKendrick on Forbes
Explainable Neural Networks: Revolutionizing AI - A Spotlight by Eric Lanoix on ReWork Blog
On my Substack Notes Feeds
This is the new section on OMF
On my Substack Feeds
Do read the above posts and support the writers if you love their work
End Notes -
That’s all I want to share about this issue. If you have any other resources to add to the list, do mention them in the comment section below -
See you in the next post
This is me editing the post after publishing the post. I couldn’t help but notice that Substack has also disabled Twitter Links Embedded in this. The rivalry seems to be way more real. Sorry for the previous misinterpretation, the action was not done from Substack's side, but most probably from Twitter’s side.