Vertical integration? (Score 3, Interesting)

I'm guessing the purpose of this is vertical integration? That is they want to own the discussions that they can then feed into LLMs. Outside this it seems unclear what the goal would be. Maybe supplant Bluesky as the replacement to Xitter? Realistically There's already many many social media sites out there. If they do want something to feed chunks of text into their models a site like Reddit seems like a much better format since there would be significantly more content to pull from. The biggest issue I see with the organization that runs one of the most used generative chat apps in the world is model collapse. It would probably be best to simply offer using Chat GPT directly on the social media site. Then they could have a much better idea who is actually writing their own content/replies/etc and can exclude it from training models. Otherwise garbage in, garbage out. On the surface this seems concerning, but if they manage to actually create a site that has fair moderation and low amounts of censorship it could be good to have an alternative to whats out there. I highly doubt this will be the case though. So while I'll reserve judgement until it comes to fruition, consider me bullish.