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First thing I am using this is for scraping (my) groups from FaceBook since they shutdown the API a while back. "Give me comments from this group from 1/1 to 8/1 in json". Hope it works.

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This is a great idea! Utilizing the world's most advanced software on piles of the most cutting edge hardware, you could do something amazing like give it "write a simple Web2.0 style page with a list of updates from my friends in chronological order"! Imagine how glorious such a simple fun social network could be!

I'll be interested to see what access it gives you to Meta products.

Grok Bot doesn't have direct access to Twitter like Grok on x.com does, for no good reason, but it does have an API plugin which gives you free $20 credit if you install it.

When these companies want to lock you into their platforms it seems kinda dumb to not give their own products access to their own products.

The walled garden is basically their entire moat. If you have access to that, you can do things like, "Every hour, write all updates in chronological order to a file $HERE", then you have an API feed. You integrate that into your own homespun app, then you never see their ads. They hate that.

All of Meta's products have to be user-hostile, because the first thing you want is interop and that kills their monetization.

I use gemini all the time to check transcripts of videos! Same idea

Not in my country yet. Oh well.

enjoy that while it lasts :)

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