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Best: Substack plans to build creator sponsorship tools from first principles
“And I think there's a version of unlocking, you know, more economic opportunity, more economic upside that is aligned with the idea of independence, the idea of having differentiated value and quality. And so we're very interested in doing that, but you know, …”
Chris Best Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 23:17 Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
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Best: AI and algorithms will supercharge dopamine-driven media
“And I think that that side of media is going to get supercharged. We have very sophisticated AI goon bots now. Is that a good thing? I don't know, but it's happening. And we're going to have that across like, you know, everything, every Short form video, every…”
Chris Best Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 34:13 Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
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Best: Media will never return to pre-internet centralized gatekeeping
“We're not gonna not have people able to directly connect with a large audience. That's a change in the world that, you know, put the genie back in that bottle. We're not gonna go to a world where new people can't start their own media empire, start their own c…”
Chris Best Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 13:29 The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
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