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With OpenAI continues to battle lawsuits from news outlets and authors over materials used to train ChatGPT, the company has decided to build its own X-like social network so, we presume, they can scrape the opinions of their own users to train their models – something Elon Musk's Grok has been doing with posts on the X platform.

According to The Verge, the project is still in early stages – but the company does reportedly have a prototype focused on ChatGPT's image generation that has a social feed. It's unknown whether the plan is to release the social network as a separate app vs. integrating it into ChatGPT – which was the most downloaded app worldwide last month. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been asking for feedback from outsiders.

The plan would put OpenAI in direct competition with both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg;

One idea behind the OpenAI plan would be to use AI to help people better share content.

"The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous," said an anonymous employee of another big AI lab. "Especially how people create viral tweets by getting it to say something stupid."