This week, Casey Newton takes a field trip to TikTok. He reports on some behind the scenes developments at OpenAI and chat with GPT's Kevin Sistram about his new AI-powered news app. The results of our investigation into Chewbacca mom are in your embezzlement case. And we got the bad news for you in the Tide Podge challenge.
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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