Elon’s Problematic Politics, Meta Kills a Chatbot & OpenAI’s Exodus with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell and Jason Kapadia - E74
Elon Musk: Free speech evangelist or catalyst for civil war?
Since taking over Twitter, there’s been a tug of war between free speech and the open spread of misinformation, but nobody expected the man who purchased it to become its biggest problem child.
This episode of Disconnected dives deep into the murky waters of Musk’s recent behaviour, plus Meta’s crushed dreams of celeb chatbots, and whether OpenAI will have any staff left if they keep leaving at the current rate…
This episode of Disconnected covers:
Elon Musk’s most problematic political tweets
How misinformation thrives on X/Twitter
Whether big tech Founders should be held to the same standards of integrity as journalists
Meta’s celebrity chatbots shutting down, and whether they’re out of touch
OpenAI’s problem with Founders departing
The perfect take on LinkedIn hopping on the Olympic bandwagon
Episode Highlights:
“A lot of the riots, especially in the UK, started from fake news being spread - that’s 100% in Elon’s territory to stop.” - 10:05 - Jen Campbell
“Advertisers have the right to choose where their brands are shown, not wanting it with content they don’t like, but that phenomenon seems only to be present online.” - 11:45 - Jason Kapadia
“Elon might ‘just’ be a tech billionaire, but he has much bigger responsibility now. He essentially owns the #1 news app in the UK, and probably many other countries, so he has that responsibility now. Whether or not he's tweeting from a personal perspective, people won't look at it that way, because he is the owner.” - 14:10 - Jag Sharma
“Meta has got rid of these AI experiences because apparently nobody wanted them. I found a really good quote in Bloomberg posted last October, and they basically said, ‘it feels like the latest symptom of a company that's hopelessly confused about its identity, torn between wildly profitable, but past its prime’.” - 24:15 - Jen Campbell
“If you were a big deal at OpenAI, then so many people want to headhunt you and just offer you a wheelbarrow of cash, a wheelbarrow of stocks and shares and whatever you want - that is very enticing.” - 37:00 - Jag Sharma
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: