OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he got addicted to this ‘Larry Ellison’s app’; It got ‘too powerful’ for him
Even Sam Altman is not immune to the endless scrolling on TikTok. The OpenAI CEO recently revealed that he forced himself to get “addicted” to TikTok to study its mechanics only to delete the app after finding it “too powerful” to control. Speaking on a recent episode of the Relentless podcast, Altman shared how a research experiment to understand TikTok’s recommendation algorithm quickly spiraled into a personal distraction.
“I made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn. I really thought it was great. “And then I thought I could control it.
