OpenAI is rumored to be building a social network. They want social data to fuel their LLMs, just like Meta and X have at their disposal.
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More data harvesting. Yay! 🤣
Heh. Dude could scrap Nostr for free 😂👀 But seriously, they could. They could even announce that they're doing it and build an AI focused client.
But why would they?
worldcoin zaps
ETH zaps over nostr with crazy gas fees would come 1st...We did have a short lived Monero attempt. 🤣
monero bros in shambles.
someone could give it the ole college try and build a viable non-bitcoin lightning client.
i wouldn't use it, but i am waiting for the day when someone really tries to do it.
Nymble is a namecoin nostr client
ugh barf
The fiat world is full of this garbage. Every company wants to do everything. They use fiat money to accomplish this. We need to keep stacking Bitcoin to bring down there monopoly.
Once we are on a Bitcoin standard they won't be able to afford to do this and other small companies will be the ones building things, not only corporations.
Imagine your digital twin on a social network along with everyone else’s, considering how easy it would be to make one since they already have your data.
Do they even need your permission to create it?
This is a mind fuck
Would be curious to see how they get network effects rolling
ChatGPT has 400M weekly active users. all they need to do is put a button inside ChatGPT to share their prompt on their new AI social network and they're golden.
even if 10% start using it, they're golden.
There’s 2 major issues:
1) The arrow between LLM and social is pointed one way, and that’s from social to LLM (ala Grok). People don’t want any potential leakage from their chats to social. This wasn’t a (major) issue for X/Grok because X posts are generally public to begin with so going to Grok were already conditioned to see it public first.
2) Just zooming out, I’m not sure what the unfulfilled need is? Like why would I share my prompts and why would anyone else care about them? I see this as way more noise than signal.
I’m a bit bearish about this…building a social layer is HARD and having an existing base hasn’t proven to help (Threads).
Saw a headline that they’re trying to make it like X.
I’ll have to dig more but my knee jerk joke is Sam wants to take on Elon 🤣
Reminds me of Google Plus... Some executives sitting around saying "gee we need a social network, how hard can it be?"
This is one of many reasons why I'm neither an AI doomer, nor AI Utopian.... Because we can already see these things bumping up against the limits of both economic and computational reality. C.f. Sam Altman's reference to their "melting GPU's."
Google+ was great and more active than Twitter. It failed because Vic Gundotra left and no longer had anyone championing it, IMO. Then they merged several departments together and it all went to shit after the redesign and focus on communities. I had 4M followers there.
Imagine if Sam knew Nostr already exists.
I thought they used Reddit for that
They would be better off just buying something existing and using that (like Elon did). I don't think many people are going to go to a new platform just to feed someone else's AI
I'll pass