Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”. (www.perplexity.ai)
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 21:04
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 21:14 next collapse

…I never knew I had a strong opinion on tiktok, but I want this to happen.

regrub@lemmy.world on 21 Mar 21:22 collapse

To fill TikTok with enough slop to make its users go elsewhere?

DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com on 21 Mar 22:57 next collapse

The ol’ Reddit Treatment

spongebue@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 04:51 collapse

Now that you mention it, I want this too.

Sibshops@lemm.ee on 21 Mar 21:51 next collapse

TikTok was never approved for sale. China would never give that kind of soft power up.

pezhore@infosec.pub on 22 Mar 02:17 next collapse

I dunno, Trump showed the world you can completely give up decades of hard won soft power in only two months, maybe China will think it’s cool?

/S

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Mar 23:43 collapse

considering trump said he’d give the us back to the uk the other day he’ll probably be selling the us to china in the next week

BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 01:51 next collapse

“but money”

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 02:47 next collapse

Even ignoring geopolitics, I don’t think Tencent is going to accept shares in an unprofitable start up in an unproven and possibly permanently unprofitable industry in exchange for one of the most valuable tech properties on Earth.

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 03:23 next collapse

ByteDance will never sell the TikTok algo. They’ll handover a tamed version, but never the cutting edge.

The point is that the US, and US companies, think they can bully their way to preminence and they can’t.

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 20:05 collapse

They can fuck a whole lot of shit up on the way there though

yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works on 22 Mar 22:45 collapse

Only for the us in this case. The us isn’t even the money maker for tiktok.

swelter_spark@reddthat.com on 22 Mar 21:44 collapse

Interesting idea.