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The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter

On The Vergecast: what if, in an AI world, social networks might make more sense than chatbots?

Roughly a month ago, Michael Sayman realized he could finally build the app he’d been thinking about for years: a social network where everyone but you is an AI bot. “Over the past 10 years, we’ve had social media giants iterating relentlessly,” Sayman says, “with all the data in the world, to try and perfect an interface where people can interact with as many people and points of view as possible, right?” SocialAI looks like Twitter or Threads, he says, not to trick you into forgetting all the reply guys are AI but because we all know exactly how social networks work. “I’m trying to help people find a way to have a secondary option when that human isn’t around for them, so that they don’t have to rush to social media.” Next time you need to vent, he hopes you might decide to tell the bots instead.

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