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Paris Marx is joined by Matt Pearce to discuss how Google’s use of generative AI is sending far less traffic to all manner of websites, but especially news publications, and what that might mean for the future of journalism.
Matt Pearce is Director of Policy at Rebuild Local News and a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Matt makes the case that unchecked AI may cause newsprint to outlive the hyperlink
- AI scrapers are driving traffic away from traditional sites while increasing their operational costs.
- Learn more about coping with news fatigue.
Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. How are AGI tools affecting journalism? (00:02:38)
3. The regulatory struggles of journalism and Big Tech (00:05:04)
4. Journalists lean into their humanity (00:10:56)
5. Google Zero (00:15:52)
6. How did journalism get here? (00:21:02)
7. Bots are an existential threat to human generated content (00:26:45)
8. How geopolitics are affecting regulations (00:36:31)
9. The independent creator space (00:44:43)
10. High qulaity journalists are dependent on the purchasing power of companies (00:52:29)
11. The role of consumers in an attention economy (00:55:43)
12. Outro (01:00:37)
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