GoKawiilOpenAI Hires Former Instagram Exec Charles Porch to Court Celebrities
New York Magazine profiled Charles Porch, a 15-year Instagram veteran now working for OpenAI, describing his role as building relationships with celebrities to promote ChatGPT. The piece notes Porch arranged a dinner between Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Altman, and cites other examples like Lionel Messi's OpenAI World Cup campaign and Martin Scorsese's endorsement of an AI storyboarding startup.
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The reporting suggests AI companies are deliberately recruiting well-connected figures to normalize their products among high-profile, high-reach individuals, mirroring tactics once used to build social media platforms. This could indicate a broader industry strategy of using celebrity influence to offset public skepticism about AI, though the article does not confirm this as an explicit corporate policy beyond Porch's own description of his role.
- OpenAI hired ex-Instagram relationship-builder Charles Porch to engage celebrities
- Porch arranged a dinner between Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Altman
- Other celebrities like Messi and Scorsese have also publicly engaged with AI companies
Source: futurism.com — Frank Landymore, 2026-11-03
Published there as: “There’s a Dark Reason So Many Celebrities Are Subjugating Themselves to AI”
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