tiffanyh 4 days ago

My guess ... it's probably less of a "social network" and more of a "they are trying to build a destination (portal) where users go to daily".

E.g. old days of Yahoo (portal)

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sho_hn 4 days ago

They just want the next wave of Ghibli meme clicks to go to them, really.

This will be built on the existing thread+share infra ChatGPT already has, and just allow profiles to cross-post into conversations, with UI and features more geared toward remixing each other's images.

herpdyderp 4 days ago

That was my thought: a meme-sharing platform.

latency-guy2 4 days ago

I actually would love this. I hate having to go to another website to share some thoughts I had using tools in a platform.

I miss the days when experiences would actually choose to integrate other platforms into their experiences, yes I was sort of a fan of the FB/Google share button and Twitter side feed (not the tracking bits though).

I wasn't a fan of LLM and the whole chat experience a few years ago, I'm a very mild convert now with the latest models and I'm getting some nominal benefit, so I would love to have some kind of shared chat session to brain storm, e.g. on a platform better than Figma.

The one integration of AI that I think is actually neat is Teams + AI Note taking. It's still a hit or miss a lot of the time, but it at least saves and notes something important 30% of the time.

Collaboration enhancements would be a wonderful outcome in place of AGI.

beepbopboopp 4 days ago

The answer seems more obvious to me. They dont even care if its competitive or scales too much. xAI has a crazy data advantage firehousing Twitter, llama FB/IG and CGPT just has, well, the internet.

Id hope they have some clever scheme to acquire users, but ultimately they want the data/