The biggest reboot no one ever expected. Vine returns as ‘divine’

before Tik Tok‎6-second video application vine He was the king of short videos. Now, Fine may be looking to reclaim his crown. Nearly nine years after the application was closed by the parent company twitterA strikingly similar app has arrived, and it has plans to successfully ban the one thing everyone hates on social media: Back up ramp.

The new app is called divinewas funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and created by early Twitter employee Evan Henshaw Plath (aka The rabble). It will contain more than 100,000 archived videos from Vine, according to a press release shared with CNET, and users will also be able to create new content. That is, unless they plan to use it Generative artificial intelligence To do this.

“With AI-generated content quickly indistinguishable from regular content, the slowdown of AI has left major centralized social media platforms inundated with AI content labeling requirements that are largely ignored or implemented,” the press release said. “Divine’s software, which flags suspected GenAI content and blocks it from being posted, is designed to bring back the days of ‘real content created by real people.’

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In addition to bringing back six-second video loops, Henshaw-Plath specifically emphasized that he wants Divine to provide real human connection without artificial intelligence or ad-based algorithms.

“I want to show people that we don’t need to accept this harsh reality,” he said in the statement, later adding: “With apps like Divine, we can see the alternative.”

Henshaw Plath has previously spoken about the changes he would like to see in the digital age. In July, he published a post on Medium titled “We deserve better: a new social media rights bill“, which outlined his vision for new social media applications.

“The way forward begins with understanding that we are not passive consumers of social media, but rather active participants in shaping its future,” he wrote.

Dorsey funded Divine through his non-profit foundation And other things. In the statement, Dorsey said he created his nonprofit “to allow innovative engineers like Henshaw-Plath to show what is possible in this new world, using permissionless protocols, which cannot be shut down at the whim of a company owner.”

The Divine app is currently in beta testing, and you can be added to Waiting list to test the new app now.