Algorithmic Recommendation Engine for Texts
I'm sorry to hear you didn't really read much this year...
— Vincent van der Meulen (@vincentmvdm) December 31, 2023
Maybe things would've been better if you had BookTok: the reading app for the distracted generation™ pic.twitter.com/NiLGsdyLTw
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