Perplexity sounds desperate. They got early traction and have money but they seem to be lost.
Less desperate, more "there is a point where we needed to stop and we have clearly passed it but let's keep going and see what happens."
Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok
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#12Aravind Srinivas is very ambitious but also smart of course.
TikTok has got to be an absolute gold mine for AI video training because of its short duration format and the amount of videos.
And AI videos seem primed to absolutely explode in popularity and consumption. I don't have access to Veo 2 yet, but Kling 1.6 is pretty amazing, even if it's prompt understanding is a bit random.
I wonder what the TikTok terms of use say about this.
I am probably just a hopeless conspiracy theorist, but I wonder if this just comes down to the NSA getting full access to the code and operations for auditing purposes or if they decide they have their own agenda.
I know that propaganda is a real thing, not a made up conspiracy theory, and companies like TikTok and Perplexity could be key to spreading/controlling it.
In particular, it's difficult to run a war if almost everyone in your country is against it. Which might happen pretty quickly if the wrong video spreads.
Maybe the solution to avoiding WWIII is for the (evil?) military industrial complex bosses in the west and China to get together and realize that they can more effectively surveil and control their populations if they work together. And then they can sell their weapons for purposes of persecuting smaller nations or groups that get out of line. And use the combined power of the monopoly information distribution companies in both countries to propagandize the world.
There you go, I just solved world peace. You're welcome.
Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok
#13Perplexity at this point like that single uncle shooting his shot with anything breathing.
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#14Aravind Srinivas is very ambitious but also smart of course. TikTok has got to be an absolute gold mine for AI video training because of its short duration format and the amount of videos. And AI videos seem primed to absolutely explode in popularity and consumption. I don't have access to Veo 2 yet, but Kling 1.6 is pretty amazing, even if it's prompt understanding is a bit random. I wonder what the TikTok terms of…
I see the demand for being able to produce content with 0 effort, but where is the demand to consume it coming from? I thought people watch tiktoks to interact with people, the desire to engage with nonhuman personalities must be extremely niche, but could be I’m in a millennial/luddite bubble.
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#15Perplexity is a pretty awesome and much needed app, but Aravind Srinivas has many posts on X reek of a desperate need to succeed - scruples aside. To me that signals an inevitable enshitification.
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#16Aravind Srinivas is very ambitious but also smart of course. TikTok has got to be an absolute gold mine for AI video training because of its short duration format and the amount of videos. And AI videos seem primed to absolutely explode in popularity and consumption. I don't have access to Veo 2 yet, but Kling 1.6 is pretty amazing, even if it's prompt understanding is a bit random. I wonder what the TikTok terms of…
> I am probably just a hopeless conspiracy theorist, but I wonder if this just comes down to the NSA getting full access to the code and operations for auditing purposes or if they decide they have their own agenda.
ByteDance already offered the US this and a seat on the board with the ability to veto any hire they deem suspicious. The real problem is that Meta and Google lost their market share to Tiktok and they are not happy about it.
Re: Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok
#17Aravind Srinivas is very ambitious but also smart of course. TikTok has got to be an absolute gold mine for AI video training because of its short duration format and the amount of videos. And AI videos seem primed to absolutely explode in popularity and consumption. I don't have access to Veo 2 yet, but Kling 1.6 is pretty amazing, even if it's prompt understanding is a bit random. I wonder what the TikTok terms of…
I see the demand for being able to produce content with 0 effort, but where is the demand to consume it coming from? I thought people watch tiktoks to interact with people, the desire to engage with nonhuman personalities must be extremely niche, but could be I’m in a millennial/luddite bubble.
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I understand the argument that TikTok is credibly more exposed to demands from the CCP than American Social media. I'm not entirely convinced it's happening to an alarming degree, some collaboration with governments seem inevitable, but I'm also not unconvinced. I don't see how that in any way leads into an argument of "If China agrees to open up its market to foreign social media, without censorship, then we can con…
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> one massive privacy invading democracy undermining psyop Sounds like Meta.
To an extent, I agree. I think TikTok is far more insidious. If you look at the agreements US based workers had to sign, to uphold goals of the Chinese government, the injection of state sponsored bias into their product seems pretty explicit. With Meta there have been both private censorship decisions (due to the bias of the company’s own executive and employees) as well as pressure from the US government (see Biden administration back channels to request censorship). But even so, I don’t think these are comparable in magnitude and extent.
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#20It's a shame because Perplexity is BY FAR the most useful AI tool out there. This shows they have clearly no vision and won't be able to keep afloat.