Openai is reportedly developing its own social media platform. The Verge, who has broke the newsdescribes the project as “X-like” in nature.
Little is known about the new site beyond the fact that it exists. The Verge writes that the company is working on an “internal prototype”, which involves “food” and can be built around the company’s image-generation capabilities. It doesn’t seem to be a name for the platform, and it is also not clear whether it would be separate from ChatGPT or would be integrated into the company’s existing automatic service.
Sam Altman, the general manager of Openai, quietly invited feedback on the project, sources that spoke with the exit communicated. Gizmodo extended to Openai for more information.
The movement has mostly been interpreted as a way to stay competitive with Meta and Xai, Elon Musk’s AI business (which is integrated with Musk’s social media, X). Considering the description of the new platform prototype as “X-like”, it reasons that this news was designed to ruin Musk’s day. Musk and Altman were previously trading partners at Openai but Musk left the organization And the two have been bitter rivals since then. Musk had previously tried to buy Openai, though Altman rejected him.
Why would we need another social media platform? And what are the potential benefits of a social media platform operated by the world’s most valuable artificial smart business? The Verge writes:
One idea behind the social prototype … is to have ai help people share better content. “The Grok integration with X has made all the jealous,” says someone working at another big AI lab. “Especially as people create viral tweets by making it say something stupid.”
Critics and social scientists alike noticed that AI is intended for Make people exponentially fools. The problem is a “cognitive discharge”, which describes the process by which a person can rely on to make critical ways of thinking they were previously responsible for. It is not said what the new Openai project could look like (if it even comes to Fruition), but it is safe to say that if it is designed to help users post “better content”, I think we may have already reached the bottom of the “cognitive download” barrel.
