Elon Musk blasts TikTok as an \u201cAI attack\u201d after teasing his own social media platform YouTube: Marques BrownleeTesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a jab at TikTok calling the company\u2019s AI \u201cannoying,\u201d days after teasing a new social media platform. Tech billionaire Elon Musk is known for not being the biggest fan of mainstream social media, as he does not have a public TikTok or Instagram account, with Twitter being his main way of interacting with followers. While many users have called TikTok out for privacy concerns, Musk has recently taken a shot at the platform calling the app\u2019s AI \u201cannoying.\u201d On March 27, 2022, Musk responded to a tweet uploaded by Andrej Karpathy, who is Tesla\u2019s Director of AI, saying: \u201cTikTok feels like such an obvious AI attack that it\u2019s annoying.\u201d TikTok feels like such an obvious AI attack that it\u2019s annoying. I prefer to be attacked by AI with subtlety \u2013 maybe a rose, some candles, wine, Barry White, witty banter, that sort of thing \u2026 \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2022 Elon Musk teases new social media platform On Friday, March 25, 2022, Musk tweeted: \u201cGiven that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?\u201d The Tesla CEO followed up on the Tweet by asking his followers whether or not a new platform is needed. In a separate tweet on Friday, Musk stated that \u201cfree speech is essential to a functioning democracy\u201d and questioned whether Twitter \u201crigorously adheres to this principle.\u201d While Musk has not officially released any plans to build a new social media platform, it is believed by many that the billionaire might already be working on one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk blasts TikTok as an \u201cAI attack\u201d after teasing his own social media platform YouTube: Marques BrownleeTesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a jab at TikTok calling the company\u2019s AI \u201cannoying,\u201d days after teasing a new social media platform. Tech billionaire Elon Musk is known for not being the biggest fan of mainstream social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}