Probably why Sam Altman wants to create an app for social media Openai

AI company behind Chatgpt considers the construction of a social media platform as per reporting by Air This week, citing many anonymous sources. Yes, you read this right: a social media company.

Currently, the concept is just an internal project – which means there is no guarantee that it will ever see the light of the day. But the idea raises many questions: What would a social issue look like? Who would post on it? Will the company develop special AI features for it? Does Altman really want to beat Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk?

And, my most non -consistent question: Why? Why would Openai want to build a social network?

Not because the company has been overcome with time and extra money to spend on it. This was extremely busy for several months for Openai. Only in the past week Chatgpt Plus Pay customers has access to three new models: O3, O4-Mini and 4.1S This spring we also learned that the company was developing its first Open weight After half a decade and she missed the native image generator and gave PHECKPT Performance updates Improve his memoryS Openai is determined to be crowned the king among many competitors working to build the fastest, cheapest and most useful AI models.

And it is this aspiration that can be behind the reported Openai ambitions on social media.

What would social media look like from Openai?

From what we know, Openai is considering building a social issue around your new native image generatorS Issued earlier this year, the image generator found a wide audience and cause a tendency People who create images of themselves, as presented in the iconic style of Studio Ghibli’s animation. Altman is reported to want feedback from “outsiders”.

It is likely that there is a text component for the social issue, possibly making it more comparable with the themes of X/Twitter and Meta. It seems that there would be a mix of human and AI content, but many of the details are still unclear.

Openai did not immediately respond to a request for comment until the time of publication.

Why would Openai want a social media company?

The short answer: Data. The management of a social media company is not an easy task and is already hyper -concomplete, overwhelmed and fragmented market. In the past, Altman jokingly posted for Starting a social application or Buying X/TwitterIn response to META AI launch reports self -app and an offer from a group of investors led by Musk to buy a non -profit goal behind Openai.

While Altman would not be the first (or last) billionaire to start a real company as a joke, there is a much more and more realistic reason Openai to investigate the construction of a social media platform: it needs data.

The type of AI, which OPENAI develops, requires huge streams of human-generated content to train models to make them healthier, more accurate and human sounding. The current Openai data collection practices are subject to heated lawsuits, but this does not mean that the company has stopped acquire and train models. Social media platforms, where real people (and admit that potentially many bots) talk freely, share photos and post videos, can be a grace for the hungry AI data company, according to that these customers allow OPENAI to use this content for the purposes of training.

Two of the largest competitors of Openai in the generative AI space are Meta and X/Twitter, which both have their own social media platforms. Zuckerberg and Musk are able to use the content shared on Facebook, Instagram and X to refine their models – Meta users cannot give up training, although X users canS OPENAI’s social media company can help make its AI more competitive, even if it means that the company has to branch and spend a lot of money.

AI and social media

Artificial intelligence has always participated in some level in the cure of our emissions on social media through machine learning algorithms. But now the generative AI is increasingly finding new ways to appear Instagram., YouTube And the content generated by X. AI also fills the social emissions for the horror of many people.

The generative features of AI in social media can be the result of large technology companies such as Meta and X, which owns and operating AI business under the same parent umbrella. It is easier to keep it in the family to some extent. This is certainly part of a larger, long-standing AI trend that pops up in many of our online spaces, such as Microsoft, Google and other software products, as well as in hardware such as new iPhone, Androids and laptops.

For more information, see our full reviews for Chatgpt 4 and MetaS