A Trip to TikTok + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Comeback

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is opening up a “Transparency and Accountability Center” to try to win over skeptics. Is the company’s strategy working? Then, the origin story of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how the company kicked off an A.I. arms race. Plus: The co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, hopes to make a “TikTok for text.”

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0:00.0	Kevin this week I went on a reporting trip to Los Angeles.
0:03.8	I was there to meet with some people from TikTok,
0:06.1	and I brought you some trinkets.
0:07.7	Oh, what'd you bring me?
0:09.0	Well, we have the branded TikTok jodders,
0:13.8	which are a symbol point pens.
0:15.4	Those are cool.
0:16.4	There is some refillable nourishing hand sanitizer
0:19.7	with a TikTok logo on it.
0:20.9	We have the classic for you notepad,
0:23.9	of course, a riff on the TikTok for you page.
0:27.1	And then here is some information
0:29.0	about how many trust and safety professionals
0:31.0	the TikTok corporation is hired.
0:32.6	And so goody bag.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:35.8	And finally, there's the Wi-Fi password
0:37.2	for TikTok if you need it.
0:39.1	Anyway, based on this, would you say
0:42.0	that TikTok no longer poses a threat to our national security?
0:45.2	Yes.
0:46.2	Based on the notebook hand sanitizer, pens,
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