Stephanie Hughes

What are people using it for?

Are they using it to buy stuff or are they using it as an investment?

Wharton's Dave Rebstine is the creator of the Consumer Cryptocurrency Confidence Index.

Daniel Shin produced this episode.

I'm Stephanie Hughes, and that's Marketplace Tactics.

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One of the OG social networks for humans now owns one just for chatbots.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

It's Friday.

It's almost spring.

Let's celebrate with a roundup of news on the Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review.

This week, the social network Maltbook finds a new home.

Plus, YouTube dominates the media landscape.

But first, a look at AI-related site outages at Amazon.

This week, the Financial Times reported that Amazon engineers were meeting to discuss recent outages of the website, including those related to its use of AI.

There weren't specifics on exactly which outages were being discussed.

But this does come after Amazon's online store was unavailable for thousands of customers for a few hours last week, according to user reports.

Amazon told us that only one incident discussed was related to AI, and none of them involved AI-written code.

I asked Jewel Burke-Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, what this tells us about the unintended consequences of jumping right into generative AI use.