Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has launched the Divine app to revive the once-popular Vine short video service, but AI slop is specifically prohibited, Engadget writes.
Divine provides access to an archive of approximately 500,000 Vine videos restored from the original service’s backups, and allows creators to publish new videos up to 6 seconds long.
Divine is available in a web version as well as an app for iOS and Android, but requires an invitation to access. Some old-school miners have already returned their accounts, including Lele Pons, JimmyHere, MightyDuck, and Jack and Jack.
Dorsey is funding Divine through the open source initiative And Other Stuff, which is led by Evan Henshaw-Platt, a former Twitter employee known as “Rabble.” The app itself is built on the open Nostr protocol, and as the developer pointed out, creators retain control of their content.
The press release states that the service primarily focuses on creativity rather than advertising algorithms. Additionally, Divine explicitly prohibits so-called AI slop, in fact any content generated by artificial intelligence.
“Encryption techniques” are used to verify the authenticity of videos, and new videos in the feed are marked as human-created. Users can click on it to get more information and perform AI checks.
“By bringing Vine back on a decentralized network, we are finally able to correct all of our mistakes,” Dorsey said. “It’s no secret that we didn’t find the business model for Vine. Divine’s founding principle is that creators always have full control over their content and followers, allowing them to generate and grow their own revenue streams.”
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