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AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns


Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights. Systrom suggested that chatbots being overly engaging is not a bug, but an intentional feature designed for AI companies to show off metrics like time spent and daily active users. In response, OpenAI pointed TechCrunch to its user specs, which state that its AI model “often does not have all of the information” to provide a good answer and may ask for “clarification or more details.”

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