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The proliferation of generative AI has opened up a brand new frontier of exploration for consumer internet entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to build new types of networks around social media and communications. When we talk about social media as it currently exists, we think about algorithmically organized feeds that present to us different forms of media: photos, videos, text, etc. For the past several years it has felt as if innovation and fun stalled. No new form factors meant content consumption was largely relegated to the mobile screen, and the algorithms coaxed creators into generating the type of content that would be most rewarded. With the advent of generative AI tools both closed and open source, builders have access to an entirely new toolbox to unleash creativity. There’s a linear approach to thinking about how events will unfold here: generative AI will be applied to the interfaces we are most familiar with today. What would Instagram look like if it started with

The proliferation of generative AI has opened up a brand new frontier of exploration for consumer internet entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to build new types of networks around social media and communications. When we talk about social media as it currently exists, we think about algorithmically organized feeds that present to us different forms of media : photos, videos, text, etc. For the past several years it has felt as if innovation and fun stalled. No new form factors meant content consumption was largely relegated to the mobile screen, and the algorithms coaxed creators into g

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