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Evans: Global annual photos taken likely reaches 10 to 100 trillion
“Even if you just add up the numbers from Facebook and Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and so on, you get to about eight or nine hundred billion photographs taken last year. And that's just, sorry, shared. So if there were eight or nine hundred bi…”
George: ChatGPT daily users average 30 minutes per day
“Active daily active users of chat GPT are ready today. Spend like 30 minutes at 20, 28, 29 minutes a day on the product. And, you know, to put that into context, I think Instagram's like 50 minutes a day and, you know, tick tock like Sadly, it's like 70 minute…”
Postma: Social media will integrate AI clothing try-ons within years
“And I wouldn't be surprised if any social media is going to do this soon, because Instagram already has photos of your face, right? They could already train a model on your face in that kind of sense. And you could put the clothing on it that they put in their…”
Instagram intentionally targeted photographers and designers at launch, says Bailey Richardson
“From my perspective of at least how we grew Instagram, we started out with this core audience of people that were photographers and designers, and that's actually who we went and spoke to when we released the app, and who we promoted right away, because we fel…”
García Martínez: At least 97% of Instagram ad viewers do not engage
“You know, the CTR, the click through rate, like how often a user engages on a thing like Instagram, at least 97% of people who looked at it. We're just completely indifferent to the thing.”
Moore: Deepfake celebrity math tutorials by OnLock Learning get millions of views
“Every video they post gets millions of views, and it's, like, explanations delivered by, like, deep fake AI celebrities of, like, math and physics content.”
Evans: Facebook bought Instagram for 1% and WhatsApp for 10% of valuation
“They bought Instagram for whatever it was, one percent of the value of the company, and then they bought Facebook for, so then they bought WhatsApp for, say, 10% of the value of the company.”
Smith: Instagram had 13 employees when acquired for $1 billion in 2012
“Instagram, for example, had 13 employees when it was sold for a billion dollars, and that was in 2012.”
Foundation requires social media verification and artist invite trees for creators
“So on foundation, you were, we require social verification. So we actually require you to attach both your Twitter and Instagram to prove your identity. And we also ask that you come and be invited by another artist on the platform.”