OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone

I fear this will be an uphill battle for YT. I have this gut feeling that Meta and OpenAI here are employing the flooding the zone strategy to hurt and maybe displace YT. The sheer flood of slop with the occasional enjoyable nugget of content flooding YT from the pAIrates will be harder to filter out, clog up servers, and users like you and I will get annoyed and gradually consume less content. YT loses market share and some new platform can move in for the kill, operated by Meta, OpenAI and/or other such reputable companies. It's not easy to monetize this crap, which is a loss leader at this point. It doesn't look to me like enough people will subscribe to these services to be financially viable. They have to find other ways. So pivot to video 2.0 - this time with so-called AI! Sigh.

I hate it when management comes asking something like, "how are we planning to use AI?" instead of "what tools would help you be more productive?" The first puts me on the defensive, and my answer is "we're already using various forms of AI, from machine learning to features our tools have," and that isn't a productive conversation. The second question is more useful, since I'll mention things the asker could actually help with, like feedback from other parts of the company, more budget to hire and promote, etc.

AI might be the right solution, and it might not, but you won't get that answer if you ask the wrong question.

The only AI I kinda like on TT are the ones that write jokes, then run a video prompt to speak the parts. Are they good at being comedians? Yes. Are they video artists? No. Do I like seeing Gary the stormtrooper get constantly harassed? Yes.

Defrauding investors.

In 2024, in the eyes of Microsoft, they saw a demand for A.I. (from who or where, is another rabbit hole). And Microsoft bought a 20 year nuclear power contract. So 20-30 years from today that spent nuclear fuel is fuck that humans will have for infinity; instead of 100% of that nuclear power to have used for any other purpose (cities, battery charging, hospitals, food production, etc)... absolutely anything other than A.I.
Yup, so your answer is in the bottom of that rabbit hole, and it isn't a logical one.

They ensure content never leaves by having it be so low quality that nobody will want to take it away.

The app can generate copyrighted content

How are they allowed to do this?

They can't, based on their premise.

Either they actually can't copyright it because it's AI generated and only human output can be copyrighted, or they're actually using humans to generate the content, which kinda torpedoes the AI only aspect.

You should not train on AI generated content.

Also, I expect older generations to fall for this.

Well, they clearly have too much money

They may have a lot of money, but they definitely don't have anything close to a reasonable return on investment. I believe the total revenues from "AI services" are sub $50 billion per year compared to at least x20 times capex and likely a very high amount of opex (hundreds of billion) per year.

There's a documentary that explains our timeline very well, it's called "Idiocracy".

Eh, tiktok was already brain rot.

Not sure it really makes any difference.

And I mean this seriously. People staring at their phones to watch little snippets of shit and endlessly scrolling for more is not healthy.

I am not sure there really is a distinction between "real' or not real to the end viewers brain.

Slippery slop

Yes and also only AI watching it. Then AI will make statistics on it for advertiser AI to pay them per view.

Trying do a URL lookup at archive.fo. For Wired there is very likely an archived copy.