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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)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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