Why the Hell Is OpenAI Building an X Clone?

Why is an AI company pretending that we’re living in 2022 and working on a new social media platform? OpenAI has money, everyone’s attention, and its iOS app is still the number one download on Apple’s App Store. It doesn’t really need to get into the social media business for cash (most platforms struggle to turn a profit) or prestige. Sure Sam Altman has beefed with both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and cockily threatened to make a social media platform, but why divert the company’s resources to that when its in a fight for AI supremacy with xAI, Google, and Anthropic. Altman’s X clone is all about getting a steady stream of content that it can train its models on for free. There’s a shortage of data right now that is limiting how quickly and effectively AI models can be trained. Google has a steady stream of content thanks to running the most-used search engine on the planet and YouTube. Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has managed to impress plenty of people with its model Grok becau ... Read full article.