Yacine predicts AI assistants will drive YouTube's direct app usage to zero
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-02
Former Meta engineer and ML tooling founder Yacine says he wants to see YouTube's direct app usage go to zero: ChatGPT, Claude, and whoever else joins will force social media companies to compete with them by serving AI as cheaply as possible — effectively ending their monopoly on content consumption.
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