🦆 Foie gras, sans guilt

Plus: Why AI keeps ripping off a fantasy artist, the whitest paint, 12 weird McDonald’s, and more. [View Online]( [The Hustle] Happy hibernation to Fat Bear Week 2022 winner Candidate 747! The public votes annually on which bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park has bulked up the most from summer to fall. In today’s email: - TikTok vs. Big Tech: Who’s copying who? - Chart: Artists vs. AI art - Foie gras… from a lab? - Around the Web: The whitest paint, 12 weird McDonald’s, AI decor, and more cool internet finds. 🎧 On the go?[Listen to today’s 10-minute podcast]( to hear Jacob and Juliet break down TikTok turning the tables on Big Tech, Apple hitting the gas on ads, AI Joe Rogan, and Tom Cruise in space. The big idea [tik-tok-gif]( Zachary Crockett Everyone wants to be TikTok, and TikTok wants to be everyone Over the past couple years, “more like TikTok” has become a business strategy for tech companies, large and small. Many are “TikTokifying” themselves, scrambling to embed carbon copies of the app’s defining features in their platforms. As they forge ahead, TikTok itself is flipping the trend on its head, laying the groundwork for features rivaling those of Google, Amazon, Spotify, and more. Who is TikTok facing up against? Everyone, basically. - Instagram made Reels, and YouTube launched Shorts, so Meta and Google are fair game. - Since 2021, Spotify has been [trialing]( a TikTok-esque discovery feature. - Amazon, too, is [testing]( a TikTok-like shopping feed, and recently expanded its livestream shopping efforts. So where is TikTok looking to grow? For now, TikTok is particularly well positioned to move into: - Search: Google [literally]( said it themselves — young people use TikTok to find places to eat, not Google, and TikTok is already [deepening]( its search functionality. - Music: 63% of TikTok users [discover]( new music on TikTok before any other platform, and TikTok is now in [talks]( with labels about rapidly expanding its music platform Resso globally. - Commerce: Earlier this week, Axios [reported]( that TikTok is launching product fulfillment centers, putting Amazon in its sights. As The Washington Post’s Gen Z tech correspondent Jules Terpak [eloquently]( put it: “TikTok is a beast.” [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Send as email to a friend](mailto:?subject=The%20Hustle%20wrote%20something%20I%20think%20you%27ll%20like...%0A&body=Everyone+wants+to+be+TikTok%2C+and+TikTok+wants+to+be+everyone%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthehustle.co%2F10-12-22-tik-tok-copy%3Futm_campaign%3DThursday%2BEmail%26utm_content%3D10-12-22-tik-tok-copy%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Ddaily%0A%0AYou%20can%20subscribe%20with%20my%20link%20here%20to%20get%20the%20latest%20in%20tech%20and%20business%20daily:%0A [View on our website]( TRENDING [eyeball wearing a hat] Scary stuff: Listen to AI Joe Rogan interview AI Steve Jobs in this entirely [AI-generated podcast](. You can also vote on future eps, like a convo between Buddha and Einstein. SNIPPETS A jury decided Alex Jones and “Inforwars” should pay [$965m]( to families and an FBI agent affected by his repeated on-air claims that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax. Microsoft launched [Designer](, a Canva alternative, and Teams Premium, with [features]( like meeting recaps and live translations. Apple is reportedly [preparing]( a push into TV advertising in which it would monetize Apple TV+ content with ads. Subway, fresh off of a tuna controversy, reported [record sales](, up 8.4% in Q3 at stores that have been open for over a year. Beef: A judge [decided]( that an Arkansas law banning plant-based meat from using words like “burger” or “hot dog” is unconstitutional. Shein vowed to cut supply chain emissions by [25%]( by 2030. Last year, the fast-fashion giant produced 6.3m tons of CO2 emissions. The Statue of Liberty’s crown [reopened]( for the first time since the pandemic began. Tickets promptly sold out. To the moon: Japanese space company [ispace]( will launch two rovers to the moon next month. Meanwhile, SpaceX may help [Tom Cruise]( spacewalk outside the ISS for a movie. Marmalade sales are up [~20%]( since Queen Elizabeth II’s death due to mourners leaving sandwiches as tributes. Artist Damien Hirst [burned]( 1k paintings for his NFT collection, “The Currency.” He claims each one’s value transfers to the NFT after it’s burned Startup growth: [Private investors]( can superboost your business. Learn about angels, venture capitalists, and more on The Hustle blog. Chart [fantasy-art-chart]( Singdhi Sokpo AI can’t get enough of this fantasy artist Polish illustrator [Greg Rutkowski](’s work has appeared in games like “Horizon Forbidden West” and “Dungeons & Dragons.” He’s also a popular prompt for AI image generator Stable Diffusion, [per]( MIT Technology Review. His name has been used as a prompt 93k+ times, per [Lexica](, a website that tracks prompts. To put this in context, we searched for “cat” — the internet’s favorite creature — and only got 16.8k images back. The problem AI generators train on existing images without permission or attribution, leading Getty Images to [ban]( AI-generated imagery on its platform in fear of future copyright issues. For artists, they’re a risk to their livelihoods. Rutkowski doesn’t appreciate the deluge of images now falsely credited to him on the internet, [telling]( Yahoo Finance he worries AI art could dilute human creativity and threaten art education. This isn’t the only recent AI art controversy - A graphic novelist who used Midjourney to illustrate her story secured the first copyright for an AI-generated work. [The issue?]( The main character looks like “Euphoria” actress Zendaya. - The winner of an art competition [used AI]( to make his prize-winning piece, spurring debate over whether that’s fair. And we expect more AI controversies to come. 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But it’s made through a particularly cruel process, and was once [banned]( in California. - To farm foie gras, animals are force-fed corn using a 4.5k-year-old process known as [gavage]( to enlarge their livers, making them smoother and less bitter. For obvious reasons, animal rights activists are not too keen on it (nor are the ducks). Enter Gourmey… … which uses animal stem cells to grow cultivated meat in a lab. The process eliminates the need to farm animals and produces nearly identical results. If saving the ducks doesn’t do it for you, foie gras has a [high carbon footprint]( relative to other foods. Plus, a looming [shortage]( in France is threatening supply. Stay tuned, because the cultivated food revolution is just getting started. Your sushi roll could be [next](. 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