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- Fast Company
Elon Musk says he's bringing back Vine in AI form. Here's what that could mean
BY Good news: Vine might be coming back. Bad news: in AI form, courtesy of Elon Musk. 'We're bringing back Vine, but in AI form,' Musk announced on X on Thursday. He did not elaborate further on his plans. Others, however, were more open to the idea. 'Could be interesting to see what AI comes up with and evolves into,' one X user wrote. Before TikTok, there was Vine. At its peak, the app boasted 200 million active users and introduced the culture to classics like ' and they were roommates ' and ' hurricane tortilla.' Vine allowed users to upload only 6-second clips, laying the groundwork for TikTok's current short-form dominance. It launched the careers of many of today's biggest influencers and originated several of TikTok's most viral trends, including LeBron James and the ALS ice bucket challenge. X acquired Vine from its founders in 2012 for $30 million, but shut it down just five years later, citing commercial viability. The Vine archive remained available for another two years until it was officially discontinued in 2019. Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, has long been vocal about potentially reviving the platform. In 2022, he posted a poll: 'Bring back Vine?' with almost 70% voting in favor. Even MrBeast replied: 'If you did that and actually competed with tik tok that'd be hilarious.' Musk posted the same poll again last year, once more receiving an overwhelmingly positive response. YouTuber-turned-professional boxer Jake Paul, who got his first six seconds of fame on Vine, commented: 'Do it Elon I'll help however I can and round up all the og viners.' In January, Musk confirmed that his team was 'looking into it' at the same time TikTok was facing a potential ban in the United States. But now that fans have heard his plans, they might be reconsidering. What 'Vine, but in AI form' actually means is still unclear. Best case scenario: perhaps an AI-powered algorithm. Worst case: an endless scroll of AI-generated slop. For now, I'll stick with classic Vine compilations on YouTube. Sign up for our weekly tech digest. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Privacy Policy ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eve Upton-Clark is a writer at Fast Company who focuses on internet culture and trends, covering everything from politics to pop culture.. She has been a freelance features writer since 2020 and is a regular contributor to Business Insider, Telegraph, Dazed, and more More
Engadget
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‘Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time' Review: Misery and Malpractice on National Geographic
It's easy enough to schedule a 20th-anniversary commemoration of a cataclysmic event like Hurricane Katrina, and impossible not to make such an observance a lesson, a caution and, in this case, an indictment of governmental incompetence. But the fact that the five-part documentary series 'Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time' arrives in the immediate aftermath of the recent floods in Texas is more like a cosmic joke about timing: It changes how we see the narrative. It makes the story even more poignant. Was anything learned? Were remedies properly implemented since Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005? The convergence of evidence says no. Directed by Traci A. Curry and edited, deftly, by Jeremy Siefer, 'Katrina' is an irresistibly absorbing series, about bad planning, no planning, arrogant administrations, racism and doing emergency response on the cheap. Also, about history repeating itself because, to paraphrase George Santayana, no one learned from it the first time—Hurricane Betsy, in 1965, should have taught Louisiana all it needed to know about massive storms, we're told. The hard part for the viewer, even 20 years on, is revisiting so much misery and injustice. For those with short memories or too few years on Earth, the national embarrassment of Katrina wasn't born in the wind or even the rain, but in the collapse of the city's levees, the subsequent deluge, and the de facto persecution of the people most harmed by the storm.
