Algorithmic Recommendation Engine for Texts
I'm sorry to hear you didn't really read much this year...
Maybe things would've been better if you had BookTok: the reading app for the distracted generation™
— Vincent van der Meulen (@vincentmvdm) December 31, 2023
The problem is the mental overload. Texts, even for the highly educated, takes energy to parse and understand. Texts naturally is not as captivating as videos… we need a breakthrough, either technical or user behaviorial
— Sunghyun Cho (@anaclumos) February 1, 2023
Instagram's co-founders launch Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text - The Verge
- The Instagram co-founders, who departed Facebook in 2018 amid tensions with their parent company, have formed a new venture to explore ideas for next-generation social apps
- Artifact can feel like a throwback. Inspired by TikTok's success, big social platforms have spent the past few years chasing short-form video products and the ad revenue that comes with them
- The tech that enabled ChatGPT also created new possibilities for social networks
- Artifact will take the job of serving readers with high-quality news and information seriously