TikTok is under a lot of scrutiny from regulators and politicians. It's being banned in certain state governments, actually federal government employees now are no longer allowed to have it on their work phones. One of the things that people don't trust it on is could the Chinese government interfere with bite dance and sort of insert code into TikTok? And so there is a room where people like regulators, academics, or whoever else TikTok allows can go in and look at that code.
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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