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What is Spill and could it (finally) kill Twitter?

2023/8/2
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Alphonzo “Fonz” Terrell
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Avery Miles
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Charles Gorra
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Alphonzo “Fonz” Terrell: Spill是一个视觉化的对话平台，旨在为边缘群体（黑人、女性和酷儿）创造一个更安全、更有趣、更有价值的社交空间。它注重内容审核，采用基于大型语言模型的AI系统，并结合语境和用户身份进行审核，以减少仇恨言论和骚扰。Spill的商业模式包括广告和创作者奖励，但其广告策略注重与社区和谐共存，避免过度商业化。 Spill与Twitter的不同之处在于，它并非旨在成为Twitter的替代品，而是致力于打造新一代社交媒体平台，学习以往平台的经验教训，并解决Twitter等平台上存在的安全和包容性问题。Spill的团队成员均为前Twitter员工，他们对Twitter的品牌和文化有深入的了解，并希望在Spill平台上创造一个更积极、更健康的社交环境。 Max Uffberg: 作为主持人，Max Uffberg主要通过提问引导Alphonzo “Fonz” Terrell阐述Spill平台的理念、技术、商业模式以及与Twitter的关系。他关注Spill如何解决Twitter上存在的安全和包容性问题，以及Spill如何通过AI技术和内容审核机制来实现其目标。他还探讨了Spill的广告策略以及与创作者的关系。

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Fonz Terrell discusses the development and goals of Spill, a new visual conversation platform aiming to create a safer and more inclusive social media space, especially for marginalized groups. He explains the platform's unique features, content moderation strategies, and early success in attracting a diverse user base.

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The new visual platform, Spill, is not trying to become the next Twitter—it’s aiming to create an entirely new social media platform. Spill’s cofounder and CEO Alphonzo “Fonz” Terrell said he wants to create a fun, safer, and more rewarding space for its users, especially black, female, and queer folks. In order to create a safer and more inclusive community, Spill is building its algorithms based on specific data sets that will not just flag certain terms, but also look at who’s saying those terms. This will create a context-based model for content moderation. While the app is in its beta phase, it’s still invite-only; but since they’re moving at the “speed of culture,” Terrell said they’re aiming to scale up as soon as possible. There is already a vibrant kaleidoscope of diverse channels where “Spillionaires” are interacting and engaging with one another.

Then we talk about the resale industry with Charles Gorra, founder and CEO of Rebag. He explains how the market has shifted and consumers have gotten past the “ick” factor of resale. Now it means you’re a smart shopper and you’re contributing to a circular economy: “It’s not consumption anymore, it’s investment.”

And finally, we chatted about 46,000-year-old worms that may give researchers insight into how to “elongate” humans’ lives . . . maybe.

Our show today was produced by Mariam Kiparoidze with help from Avery Miles and Blake Odom. And special thanks to Max Ufberg for stepping in to host this week!

*Mix and sound design by Tad Wadhams and our executive producer is Josh Christensen. *