Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT ranks No. 5 among all websites worldwide 2) ChatGPT is the only website among the top ranked by SimilarWeb that is growing 3) How do chatbots get information if they replace the web? 4) Grok's 'white genocide' messaging campaign 5) What's in a system prompt, with a look inside Grok's 6) The truth about Timothée Chalamet 7) Filing stories directly into ChatGPT? 8) Meta slams into big problems in its Llama AI program 9) Does it matter if scaling is done? 10) IBM survey shows generative ROI is hard to come by despite interest 11) Cohere's revenue trouble 12) Perplexity integrates with Paypal 13) A look at the event calendar ahead --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Chatchip-T looks like the last website on Earth that's growing.
0:03.7	What does that mean for the rest of the web?
0:05.6	Plus, GROC starts spewing unprompted propaganda and reveals its system prompt,
0:11.2	and Meta's Lama Project is in some serious trouble.
0:14.5	That's coming up on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:18.8	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:25.0	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work
0:29.5	and personal life.
0:30.6	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.9	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:41.0	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:44.0	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:46.0	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:47.8	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:56.0	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
1:00.1	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have a major show for you today where we're going to talk
1:05.4	about some new data that we've gotten about ChachyPT's Ascent in the worldwide ranking of websites.
1:11.7	We're also going to talk about the ratios of pages crawled to click sent,
1:17.7	according to some new data from Cloudflare.
1:20.3	Then we're going to talk about this entire weird situation with GROC
1:24.7	and how it started unprompted insertion of propaganda about white genocide in South Africa.
1:32.3	And we're not going to really talk about it from political ends. It just shows a lot about what's going on with these models.
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