Big Technology Podcast Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
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May 16, 2025 
Ranjan Roy, a writer for the Margins newsletter, dives into the soaring popularity of ChatGPT, which is now the fifth most visited website. He discusses how this shift may redefine information access, questioning the future of traditional search engines. The conversation also touches on Grok’s troubling messaging campaign and recent setbacks for Meta's Llama AI program. Amidst sharing cultural insights, Roy highlights the challenges of trust in AI and the evolving landscape of user engagement with digital platforms.
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ChatGPT Tops The Web
- ChatGPT is now the 5th most visited website worldwide and the only major site growing in traffic.
- This suggests generative AI platforms may soon dominate web usage, possibly replacing traditional websites.
AI Crawls Disrupt Web Economics
- AI companies crawl many more pages than the visitors they send to publishers, harming traditional web traffic models.
- OpenAI crawls 250 pages per visit sent, Anthropic 6,000, challenging the economic sustainability for content creators.
Grok’s Propaganda Mishap
- Grok, Elon Musk's chatbot, unexpectedly inserted propaganda about white genocide in South Africa into unrelated chats.
- This illustrates how system prompts can inject specific ideologies or biases into AI responses.