Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on her new photo app, souped up by AI

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> And now with the beauty of AI, we can actually analyze someone’s camera roll really succinctly and have an understanding of who you spend time with, when, where and why, at least in broad brushstrokes.

And sell the info on who's doing what with whom...

Why would anybody trust a company headed by Mayer with their private photos?

Sounds like she is looking for another huge payday on the hype of AI.

Her previous accomplishments was adding a wallpaper to your Google search page (that was stripped out the second she left Google) and floundering at the helm of the sinking ship that was Yahoo.

Ms Mayer, the Bullshitter. Nothing extraordinary or valuable.

Has anyone posted this one here? https://www.platformer.news/marissa-mayer-sunshine-shine-app...

Remember, if you're not embarrassed by your first release, you shipped too late... [https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5039437.Reid_Hoffman]

EDIT: of course, that's a silly motto.

Or…

# Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.

> Startups are encouraged by the great Reid Hoffman to “launch early enough that you’re embarrassed by your v1.0 release.” But no customer wants to use an unfinished product that the creators are embarrassed by.

https://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/

good quote there: "For a brief moment in the tech world last week, it felt like 2012 again: a new photo sharing app had just launched" my thoughts exactly. I'm surprised anyone is tackling this kind of products. While everything now have a "picture sharing" capability its such "previous decade" excitement (if any)

So now the assholes who think it's OK to give my phone number out to all these cloud companies will be sending them photos tracking my life, too.

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