The introduction of Grok's Stories aims to encourage users to purchase premium subscriptions. However, the move has raised concerns about the potential impact on news sites' traffic and the risk of misinformation. Despite these concerns, AI news summaries are becoming increasingly common, with other companies like OpenAI and Axel Springer also announcing similar initiatives. Grok's Stories are now available to Premium X subscribers, with subscriptions starting at $8 per month.
Key takeaways:
- X, previously known as Twitter, is now using Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to summarize personalized trending stories in the app’s Explore section.
- The summaries, called Grok's Stories, are available to X's Premium subscribers and provide an overview of the subject matter associated with each trending story.
- Grok's differentiator from other AI chatbots is its exclusive and real-time access to X data, which is expected to be a selling point for premium subscriptions.
- There are concerns that AI news summaries could lead to a decrease in traffic to news sites, potentially causing some to go out of business, and that the summaries could spread misinformation.