A Trip to TikTok + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Comeback
Update: 2023-02-03
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TikTok is opening up a “Transparency and Accountability Center” to try to win over skeptics. Is the company’s strategy working? Then, the origin story of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how the company kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Plus: A co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, hopes to make a “TikTok for text.”
On today’s episode:
- Kevin Systrom is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Instagram.
Additional reading:
- TikTok is taking a more aggressive approach toward lobbying.
- Inside OpenAI’s race to build ChatGPT.
- Kevin Systrom is starting a new A.I.-powered news app.
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The guest got rich on a childishly trite use of technology and now wants to get richer as a tech-enabled parasite on journalism. Look past the pretense of his altruistic tech-bro bullshit and you'll see an aspiring non-value-adding news aggregator who further exacerbates tribal confirmation biases. But it's techy, so it's good--maybe even inevitable--right? And he might get extremely rich with a gimmick, which is the American dream.