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by vdalal 293 days ago
Here are some more thoughts...

Core product health

Based on a key goal to enable the virtuous cycle "Meaningful content --> More engagement --> More $" * Content health ("quality"): Keeps content creators on their game even up their game to generate more content, more personalized content, and perhaps more interesting content

* Content quantity (#): Makes all of us up our game and become better content creators

* Super personalization: Produce just the content on-demand that can get engagement. It's likely already happening

Core product growth

* A hedge in case they have content inventory challenges or AI is able to produce better content than creators

* FB/WA/IG? growth means targeting more and more local businesses with new services e.g. chatbot for SMBs

* Search: Chatbot/answerbot is a thing. Wean some Google Search traffic and keep it within their ecosystem

Company health and longevity

* AI-based automation and efficiency for great number of use cases

* It's great marketing, attracts talent, and enhances the brand

* Finally, as a tech company, cannot not invest meaningfully in the next great new tech trend

It's a win any way they look at it.

edit: formatting

1 comments

IMO their original product simply shows less and less meaningful content every year. Originally you'd go to facebook because "I want to see what are my friends up to." Now it's "I want to waste my life by watching 30 second videos that make me upset."

The AI generated content is not going to have meaning. It can make a really cute picture of a baby, but it's not your friend from high school's baby.