Vivian Chong
@viviacious.bsky.social
🛠️ Building AI youth safety tools at apgardai.com +
👥 the agentic tech community @exante.bsky.social
👥 the agentic tech community @exante.bsky.social
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I feel like it should be a bigger deal that the top natl security people in the government have been cc’ing an Israeli startup on all their supposedly top secret text messages and that startup left all of its doors open
May 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I feel like it should be a bigger deal that the top natl security people in the government have been cc’ing an Israeli startup on all their supposedly top secret text messages and that startup left all of its doors open
In this moment of federal crisis, the work of local governments is ever more critical. ✊
To anybody in leadership at the state or municipal level: 18F’s destruction makes this *the perfect time* to hire experienced technologists, which you all need very badly. Most 18Fers would love to stay in public service. They are spread throughout the country.
Go go go!
Go go go!
March 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In this moment of federal crisis, the work of local governments is ever more critical. ✊
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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Announcing Builder Blueprints: a free, first-of-its-kind set of legal docs and tools that founders can use to raise the standard for users and companies alike. New standard docs for a new status quo: www.builder-blueprints.com (1/3)
Builder Blueprints
The go-to document library for building the best companies with trust. This library was created by ex/ante and the Ford Foundation for founders who want to build the best company worthy of their users...
www.builder-blueprints.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Announcing Builder Blueprints: a free, first-of-its-kind set of legal docs and tools that founders can use to raise the standard for users and companies alike. New standard docs for a new status quo: www.builder-blueprints.com (1/3)
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But you would be nuts to pay a big US frontier model provider to run your spam farm, propaganda outlet, nudifier, or any other abusive application. Not only does it cost more, but you are leaving a log trail for the authorities.
Prepare to argue with fine-trained Deepseek about politics thru 2025.
Prepare to argue with fine-trained Deepseek about politics thru 2025.
January 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
But you would be nuts to pay a big US frontier model provider to run your spam farm, propaganda outlet, nudifier, or any other abusive application. Not only does it cost more, but you are leaving a log trail for the authorities.
Prepare to argue with fine-trained Deepseek about politics thru 2025.
Prepare to argue with fine-trained Deepseek about politics thru 2025.
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A huge step forward in building intentional economies for open social.
A letter to donors, made available to the public.
[No action required at this time] Blacksky Algorithms, Incorporated - Blacksky
Hello Community, You’re receiving this notification because you are one of Blacksky’s nearly 700 donors. Thanks to your help and financial support, Blacksky has achieved a level of scale that surpasse...
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January 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A huge step forward in building intentional economies for open social.
The US natsec fear around Deepseek is rooted in wanting their own standards of AI alignment to be embedded in the world’s leading models. Even if one self-hosts and tries to fine tune Deepseek’s filters out, the local baseline has these standards in the weights.
kinda curious how deepseek decides when to use "can't answer" and when to give propaganda
January 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The US natsec fear around Deepseek is rooted in wanting their own standards of AI alignment to be embedded in the world’s leading models. Even if one self-hosts and tries to fine tune Deepseek’s filters out, the local baseline has these standards in the weights.
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Hot take loosely held: By verbally bashing Big Tech yet failing to pass any meaningful privacy or antitrust reform when they had the chance (2021-2022), Dems managed to alienate tech tycoons while leaving them stronger than ever, setting the stage for an unholy alliance between tech and Trump's GOP.
January 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hot take loosely held: By verbally bashing Big Tech yet failing to pass any meaningful privacy or antitrust reform when they had the chance (2021-2022), Dems managed to alienate tech tycoons while leaving them stronger than ever, setting the stage for an unholy alliance between tech and Trump's GOP.
Awesome hearing @noupside.bsky.social on a Bloomberg Tech podcast chat about social media middleware (at 20 min mark)…Wall St and SV folks need more of this type of content!! open.spotify.com/episode/1sBS...
Elon Musk Sued by the SEC, Awaiting TikTok's Fate
Bloomberg Technology · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Awesome hearing @noupside.bsky.social on a Bloomberg Tech podcast chat about social media middleware (at 20 min mark)…Wall St and SV folks need more of this type of content!! open.spotify.com/episode/1sBS...
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2025 will be the year of the luddites
January 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
2025 will be the year of the luddites
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one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department
December 30, 2024 at 7:39 PM
one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department
Insightful listen on the future of the creative AI industry, AI model marketplaces, and how critical safety by design is for the genAI space: open.spotify.com/episode/3cQm...
Building an AI creator community w/ Civitai founders Justin Maier and Maxfield Hulker
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Insightful listen on the future of the creative AI industry, AI model marketplaces, and how critical safety by design is for the genAI space: open.spotify.com/episode/3cQm...
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no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
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It's far from mission accomplished but if nothing else comes of this fortunate Bluesky wave, it should be considered proved that it's *possible* to challenge the incumbent social apps with open alternatives.
Smart investors should be thinking *now* about funding atproto/Reddit, atproto/Tiktok, etc.
Smart investors should be thinking *now* about funding atproto/Reddit, atproto/Tiktok, etc.
seeing how far along we have come thanks for this fucking awesome team is so cool. i joined the core team the week we dropped invite codes, and i remember us all thinking that was a massive wave.
lol. lmao.
lol. lmao.
November 21, 2024 at 4:57 AM
It's far from mission accomplished but if nothing else comes of this fortunate Bluesky wave, it should be considered proved that it's *possible* to challenge the incumbent social apps with open alternatives.
Smart investors should be thinking *now* about funding atproto/Reddit, atproto/Tiktok, etc.
Smart investors should be thinking *now* about funding atproto/Reddit, atproto/Tiktok, etc.
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Everyone is seeing this through their lens of course but, to me, this so obviously the result of social content platforms and their impact on our ability to create a shared reality.
November 6, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Everyone is seeing this through their lens of course but, to me, this so obviously the result of social content platforms and their impact on our ability to create a shared reality.
The difference in texts/calls I’ve gotten for being considered a Georgia vs California voter couldn’t be more stark, but still proud to exercise my California vote ✅
November 5, 2024 at 7:43 PM
The difference in texts/calls I’ve gotten for being considered a Georgia vs California voter couldn’t be more stark, but still proud to exercise my California vote ✅
Devastating to hear of all these efforts preventing the right to vote…this is the antithesis of democracy…
November 4, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Devastating to hear of all these efforts preventing the right to vote…this is the antithesis of democracy…
Love the T&S shoutout as a top investment priority- soon we’ll have more VCs saying the same for their investment thesis?? 😁
Bluesky now has 13M+ users, the @atproto.com developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped features like DMs and video!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
bsky.social
October 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Love the T&S shoutout as a top investment priority- soon we’ll have more VCs saying the same for their investment thesis?? 😁
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kind of amazing they've made it this far already on just angel money and a seed round. also wild (in a good way) to see a social network startup list "investing in trust and safety" as a top priority for its Series A
Bluesky now has 13M+ users, the @atproto.com developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped features like DMs and video!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15M Series A to continue growing the community, investing in Trust and Safety, and supporting the dev ecosystem.
Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky
Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
bsky.social
October 24, 2024 at 5:59 PM
kind of amazing they've made it this far already on just angel money and a seed round. also wild (in a good way) to see a social network startup list "investing in trust and safety" as a top priority for its Series A
Tragedies like this emphasize why AI detection, watermarking, and moderation tech is not enough - we need robust safety evaluation tools too.
Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy
Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy
Character.AI has been sued after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform. According to The New York Times, Sewell Setzer III, a ninth grader from Orlando, had spent months talking to…
tcrn.ch
October 23, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Tragedies like this emphasize why AI detection, watermarking, and moderation tech is not enough - we need robust safety evaluation tools too.