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🎞️ Life#

Chuzhou Strawberry Music Festival#

I went to see Fenghuang Legend and Pu Shu. I took some random photos.
The atmosphere on-site was pretty good. Pu Shu and Fenghuang Legend performed a lot as the finale. Next time, I won't go for the front row, as it was very troublesome to enter and exit, and I missed out on listening to some singers.
The environment was not good. After parking, we had to walk 3-4 kilometers to enter. The ground was wet and full of mud. People were occupying seats with various picnic mats in the front row, and no one was managing it.
However, the security check was relatively relaxed. Except for water, which had to be poured into the official provided cup, other picnic mats, inflatable sofas, folding chairs, etc. were allowed to be brought in (I regret it, as I saw on Xiaohongshu that it was supposed to be very strict).

💭 Excerpt#

Ten Poems for Qingming Festival#

1. Du Mu's "Qingming": "In the drizzling rain of Qingming, the travelers on the road are about to cry. I ask where the wine house is, the shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village in the distance."
2. Bai Juyi's "Cold Food and Distant View": "The crows cry and the magpies chirp in the tall trees, who is crying on Qingming? The wind blows the paper money in the wilderness, the ancient tombs are covered with green spring grass. Pear blossoms reflect on the white poplar trees, all are places of life and death separation. Mournful cries from the depths of the earth are unheard, the evening rain falls and people return."
3. Bai Juyi's "Qingming Night": "The moon is bright on the Qingming night, the red pavilion of the governor's house is shining."
4. Han Yi's "Cold Food": "Flowers are flying everywhere in the spring city, the east wind of the Cold Food Festival makes the willows slant. At dusk, the Han Palace sends candles, light smoke scatters into the homes of the nobles."
5. Wu Weixin's "Su Di Qingming": "Pear blossoms are in full bloom on Qingming, the wanderer is half out of the city in search of spring. At dusk, the music and singing stop, and the willows belong to the flowing orioles."
6. Yang Wanli's "Visiting the Tomb on Cold Food Festival": "The path is so narrow, how can I cross the dangerous bridge? The distant mountains are faint outside the maple trees, the broken house is lonely by the wheat field. The overnight grass is blown by the spring wind, the new path has no traces of the previous year. Pear blossoms on the Cold Food Festival, I only worry about the remaining festival."
7. Zhang Ji's "A Visit to the City Gate": "Farmers are recruiting and love boats, the spring grass is green in ten thousand acres of fields. Try to peek at the county walls at Wumen, Qingming has new smoke in many places."
8. Cheng Hao's "Outing in the Suburbs": "In the fragrant field, I walk freely, spring enters the distant mountains and surrounds them. Excitement follows the scattered red flowers in the willow lane, tiredness sits on the mossy rock by the flowing water. Don't refuse a cup of wine, I urge you ten times, just afraid that the wind and flowers will fly away. Moreover, it's a good weather on Qingming, don't forget to return."
9. Wei Yingwu's "Remembering My Brothers on Qingming Day": "Cold food causes many illnesses, but I am happy to open my heart. I always think of my hometown, with smoke and fire filling the Qing River. Apricot porridge is still edible, elm jelly has been slightly fried. I only regret that the swallows have left, sitting alone in this fragrant year."
10. Yan Shu's "Butterfly Loves Flowers": "Six curves lean against the green trees, willow wind blows lightly, revealing golden threads. Who moves the zither to the jade pillar, and the curtain flies away with the sea swallow. Full of floating silk and falling cotton."
    These poems depict the scenes of Qingming Festival and express people's longing for the deceased and their love for spring.

📰 Weekly Digest#

ByteDance Sends a Company-Wide Letter to Increase Employee Incentives: Employees with Overall Performance of M and Above Will Receive Additional Stock Options#

The full text of the internal email is as follows:

The 2023 annual performance evaluation has been completed. Thank you all for your participation.

Earlier, I discussed several important performance and incentive policy adjustments with everyone, with the main changes being "increased differentiation and increased incentive intensity." Based on this concept, we plan to further increase incentives on top of the 2023 year-end bonus, hoping to provide better rewards to colleagues with good performance.

Specifically, all colleagues who participated in the 2023 annual performance evaluation and bonus assessment, and have an overall performance of M and above, will receive an additional incentive. The incentive rules are as follows:

For overall performance of M, M+, and E, an additional incentive of 5%, 10%, and 15% respectively will be given based on the actual assessed bonus months. The incentive will be granted in the form of stock options/RSUs.

For example, if someone with an overall performance of M+ receives a 4-month year-end bonus, they will receive an additional 0.4 months of incentive (granted in the form of stock options/RSUs), for a total of 4.4 months of incentive.

If the value of the incentive is less than 4 shares, it will be converted into cash and combined with the April/May salary for distribution.

The additional incentives will be granted on April 25th. As long as colleagues are still employed on that day, they will be eligible to receive it.
Source

😭 It's still the universal factory.

Report: OpenAI Collects Over One Million Hours of YouTube Videos to Train GPT-4#

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that AI companies were facing difficulties in collecting high-quality training data. Today, The New York Times provided detailed information on how AI companies are addressing this issue, including content that falls into the gray area of AI copyright law.

According to the report, OpenAI urgently needed training data and developed the Whisper audio transcription model to overcome the difficulties. They transcribed over one million hours of YouTube videos to train their state-of-the-art large-scale language model, GPT-4.

The report mentioned that OpenAI ran out of useful data supply in 2021 and discussed the feasibility of transcribing YouTube videos, podcasts, and audiobooks after exhausting other resources. In addition, OpenAI used computer code from GitHub, chess move databases, and homework content from Quizlet.

It is reported that OpenAI is aware of the legal issues involved, but believes it is a reasonable use. The Times also revealed that OpenAI's CEO, Greg Brockman, personally participated in the collection of the videos used.
Source

Is there still data left to use on the internet?

EU Imposes €1.84 Billion Fine, Apple Forced to Make Changes: Spotify and Other Music Services Can Embed Redirect Payment Links#

Apple has responded to the recent "anti-steering" policy reform proposed by the EU by updating the App Store terms, supporting embedded links or purchase buttons for streaming music apps within EU member states. This allows users to be directed to external websites to learn about other ways to purchase music.
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Great.

Musk Responds to Adult Content Proliferation on X Platform#

Elon Musk responded to concerns about the proliferation of adult content on his social media platform, X, on Thursday, announcing an upcoming "big cleanup."

A user posted, "X needs to fix the spam and pornography bot problem. It's completely out of control."

Musk responded, "The big cleanup is about to happen."

As Musk made this response, the issue of adult content on the X website was receiving increasing attention. The platform is currently filled with explicit content to the point where it makes users uncomfortable.

According to reports, Musk's X company has been exploring ways to monetize adult content. However, concerns about associated risks, such as potential involvement in criminal activities, are major concerns. Some are also worried about X's ability to protect minors from exposure to explicit content.

In fact, the surge in adult content is not unique to X. Other similar platforms, such as Twitch, have also adjusted their policies regarding such content in response to criticism.
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Where's the adult content? There are only selfless welfare sisters.

Some Elementary School Students Addicted to "Cigarette Cards" by Digging Through Trash or Buying Online, Need to Be Vigilant#

Web summary:
Some elementary school students are addicted to the "cigarette card" game, and even gambling has emerged. These students collect cigarette packs from the trash to make "cigarette cards" or buy them online. Schools and parents need to pay attention to and stop this bad habit as soon as possible.

Key points:

1. "Cigarette cards" have become popular among some elementary school students as a game and gambling method.
2. Students collect cigarette packs in various ways to make "cigarette cards," including picking them from the trash and buying them online.
3. Some students have started smoking, and schools and parents need to take it seriously and take measures to stop this bad habit.
4. Eight departments, including the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Education, have called for strict crackdowns on the illegal sale of tobacco products to minors. Tobacco retailers must prominently display signs indicating that tobacco products are not sold to minors.

Reporters entered a "cigarette card" exchange group on a social media platform, where members showed off their "cigarette cards" with photos and boasted, "Is mine rare?" "My card is better than all of yours." "Who has the purple Yellow Crane Tower? I'm buying." The background of many photos was elementary school textbooks and other books.

Some "cigarette card" enthusiasts claim that the cards sold on e-commerce platforms have different qualities: the 1-2 yuan cards are basically counterfeit products printed by merchants, "with low value"; some rare genuine cards, directly cut from cigarette packs, are sold at higher prices—5 yuan for a China brand card, 10 yuan for a Jiaozi brand card, and up to 20 yuan for the "He Tian Xia" series. They grade the cards based on the price of the cigarettes.
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Haha, it's so interesting.

📚 Article#

Star AI Product Perplexity Announces the Introduction of Advertising: Is "Google" the Only Future for AI Search?#

Original Summary#

According to the official introduction, "Related Questions" in search results will be the first advertising space open to brands. When users further explore a topic, Perplexity will add sponsored questions next to organic questions, and continue to display related advertising links after further inquiry. In simpler terms, it is the bidding ranking that search engines like Baidu and Google have relied on to make money.

Web Summary#

AI search engine Perplexity has announced the introduction of advertising as its new business model. Perplexity uses the GPT 3.5-turbo and GPT 4-turbo large models and incorporates models from companies such as Meta, Mistral AI, and Anthropic. The subscription-based business model of Perplexity is currently not sufficient to support its operating costs, so it needs to introduce advertising. However, Perplexity's advertising model may face challenges in user privacy and AI ethics, as well as competition pressure from search engines like Google.

Key Points#

1. Perplexity has announced the introduction of advertising as its new business model.
2. Perplexity uses the GPT 3.5-turbo and GPT 4-turbo large models and incorporates AI models from other companies.
3. The subscription-based business model of Perplexity is not sufficient to support its operating costs.
4. Perplexity's advertising model may face challenges in user privacy and AI ethics.
5. Perplexity needs to compete with search engines like Google to achieve significant advertising revenue.
   Original Article