CNN's John Sutter visited the Children's Museum in New York to meet with TikTok executives. The company is trying to appease regulators and politicians in the US by moving all of its data to the U.S., he says. He finds it hard to understand why you're seeing videos that are chosen for you based on a machine learning system, not your ideology or political views. "It's very rare that the controversial thing is like hard coded into the app itself"
TikTok is opening up a “Transparency and Accountability Center” to try to win over skeptics. Is the company’s strategy working? Then, the origin story of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how the company kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Plus: A co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, hopes to make a “TikTok for text.”
On today’s episode:
- Kevin Systrom is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Instagram.
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