{"id":1025607,"date":"2026-08-01T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025607"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:51:14","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-he-got-addicted-to-this-larry-ellisons-app-it-got-too-powerful-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-he-got-addicted-to-this-larry-ellisons-app-it-got-too-powerful-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he got addicted to this \u2018Larry Ellison\u2019s app\u2019; It got \u2018too powerful\u2019 for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even Sam Altman is not immune to the endless scrolling on TikTok. The OpenAI CEO recently revealed that he forced himself to get \u201caddicted\u201d to TikTok to study its mechanics only to delete the app after finding it \u201ctoo powerful\u201d to control. Speaking on a recent episode of the Relentless podcast, Altman shared how a research experiment to understand TikTok\u2019s recommendation algorithm quickly spiraled into a personal distraction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn. I really thought it was great. \u201cAnd then I thought I could control it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Sam Altman is not immune to the endless scrolling on TikTok. The OpenAI CEO recently revealed that he forced himself to get \u201caddicted\u201d to TikTok to study its mechanics only to delete the app after finding it \u201ctoo powerful\u201d to control. Speaking on a recent episode of the Relentless podcast, Altman shared how a research experiment to understand TikTok\u2019s recommendation algorithm quickly spiraled into a personal distraction. \u201cI made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn. I really thought it was great. \u201cAnd then I thought I could control it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025608,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025607\/revisions\/1025608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}