Key Points
Even the apps creator, Michael Sayman, admits that the premise of SocialAI may confuse people..
He also hasnt quite yet figured out how hell make money off of SocialAI.) He knows hes not the first to launch an AI-character app; Meta has burdened its apps with AI characters, and the Character AI app, which was just quasi-acquired by Google, lets you interact with a huge number of AI personas...
Someone joked to me that they thought Elon Musk should use this, so he could test all of his posts before he posts them on X, Sayman said.. Id actually tried that, tossing some of the most trafficked tweets from Elon Musk and the Twitter icon Dril into my SocialAI feed..
One aspect of SocialAI that clearly does not represent the dawn of a new era: Sayman has put out a minimum viable product without communicating important guidelines around privacy, content policies, or how SocialAI or OpenAI might use the data people provide along the way..
My editor at WIRED, for example, could join SocialAI himself but will never be able to follow me or see that I copied and pasted an Elon Musk tweet about wanting to buy Coca-Cola and put the cocaine back in it, just as he could not follow my ChatGPT account and see what Im enquiring about there...
