Misra: OpenAI Did Not Plan or Prepare for ChatGPT's Virality
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Gaurav Misra, founder and CEO of Captions, discusses whether AI product companies can intentionally engineer viral moments like ChatGPT or Lensa.
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“I think it was very clear that they hadn't prepared for the amount of virality that thing got. Right. Like even the name chat GPT kind of gives that away. Right. And so it wasn't a planned thing. It kind of just happened.”
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