Morin: AI chatbots and TikTok's algorithm are fundamentally the same mechanism
Dave Morin · #70: Is Apple’s Vision Out of Focus? · More or Less Podcast · Oct 25, 2024 · at 1:02:16
Dave Morin argues that conversational AI chatbots are simply a more direct interface for the same algorithmic narrative shaping pioneered at scale by TikTok.
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“Actually, most people, I still don't think associate tech talk with being one of the first AI, you know products at scale that did this first. Now it's just much more direct. It's like, you're talking to the algorithm rather than the algorithm serving up content that leads you in this direction, but they're the same thing.”
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