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The most interesting thing in tech: social media keeps evolving. And if you trace the evolution from Facebook —> Instagram —> YouTube —> TikTok, and then if you add in current trends in AI, you get to a disturbing place. How long is it until a large percentage of the short videos we watch online are algorithmically generated? How long until the most viral short videos are AI-generated humans doing things the machine knows we’ll want to see? I don't think it's that far off. #mostinterestingthingintech
You could say anything in front of the Kennedy Center and it would seem great. That being said it's also a good analysis of the situation.
Facebook did not come up with the idea of Social Media. There were many earlier companies in the space.
I love the way you have created this snackable type of content. It´s easy and fun to watch, makes you think and learn new things. Thanks and congratulations :)
Pretty solid deepfake video
I think human ability to get bored will outpace any AI. Ask Snapchat.
We're living it Nicholas Thompson btw check out The Capture series 2 on BBC, fiction but not impossible...video manipulation in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dffzKWZ3x2I
100% we're seeing pieces of this already. There's a common post format going around that takes recordings of Minecraft gameplay and mashes them up with reddit posts read by a text to speech bot. We're not too far from automating this entirely and having bots deliver the content. Here is an example if you're not familiar: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPDGYfL/
With the amount of deep fakes, AI generated avatars, and AI skins, it's already here
"For now, I am entirely real." Sounds like what an AI would say.
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1yThe question I have Nicholas Thompson, is what is the upside in this evolution? Surely there must be a scenario in which AI-driven social media helps humanity solve big problems like climate change, geopolitical instability, pandemics, etc…? Or is it all bad?