ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is reportedly looking to get into the social media game. Fear not. Sam Altman doesn’t intend to ruin one of your regular internet hangouts with a $50 billion bid (any more than he already has). According to a report from The Verge, the AI company is plugging away at something wholly new, though with a definite ChatGPT twist.
Big plans for OpenAI
According to sources familiar with the matter, OpenAI’s social media is still in the early developmental stages, meaning details are few. It’s understood, however, that a prototype is running alongside the app’s image generation tool. From this, we can guess OpenAI won’t waste time marketing an entirely new app, instead funneling new and existing users through the existing ChatGPT app.
Whether the ChatGPT-style social media platform will go down the internet town hall route currently monopolised by Twitter/X or instead encroach on Meta’s photo-based doomscroller, or whatever Facebook has become, is still a mystery. We’re putting our money on OpenAI developing a little X clone, right down to the Grok integration.
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Mimicking Elon Musk’s X would likely appeal more to OpenAI as it would create a large repository of real-time data that can be fed back into the company’s training models, ala X and Meta. Like X and Grok, ChatGPT’s social experience wants to help users share “better” content with the help of AI behind the keyboard.
“The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous,” said someone working at another big AI lab, which was not named. “Especially how people create viral tweets by getting it to say something stupid.” Whether that’ll be enough to entice new users – other than the shameless ‘AI bros’ who already flood OpenAI’s social channels – remains to be seen.
