Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
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Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni S
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A dimly lit, cluttered office with a programmer hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by screens displaying glitchy, unfinished game prototypes and broken app interfaces.
Caption: Now everyone can make apps and games, including the ones that don't work.
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Based on the original story on theverge.com.
Editor's note
While Bluesky's expansion of its AI tool to facilitate the creation of social apps and games seems innovative, it also raises concerns about the potential for increased misinformation and manipulated content on social platforms. As users generate and share more content, the challenge of maintaining a secure and trustworthy online environment becomes even more critical.
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Panel 1
(a) What the subject of this story actually is and does: Bluesky's Attie AI tool is designed to allow users to create and share small social apps like games and polls, which can then be distributed as standalone websites. (b) The ONE real irony or absurdity in the news: The irony is in the potential misuse of an AI tool that is supposed to enhance social interaction being used to create and spread trivial or frivolous apps that may not add significant value to social networks. (c) The single funniest observation that becomes the highlight: The highlight is the absurdity of an AI tool intended for meaningful social interaction being used to create nonsensical or trivial apps that could clutter the web.
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A cluttered home office with a laptop displaying the Attie AI interface. A person staring at their computer screen, bewildered. Dialogue (Person)
Dialogue: So this is what they mean by 'small social apps'...
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The person's screen now displays a chaotic interface with multiple unfinished apps and games. The person slams their head on the desk. Dialogue (Person)
Dialogue: Why am I making a game where cats play chess with talking birds?
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A conference room with a projector screen showing a poorly designed, nonsensical app. A group of coworkers looks on in confusion. Dialogue (Coworker 1) Dialogue (Coworker 2) Dialogue (Coworker 1)
Dialogue: This is the future of social interaction?
Dialogue: I think it’s a game about ordering pizza in space.
Dialogue: Maybe we should stick to cat videos.
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