Chris Hayes
Host, MSNBC. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Chris Hayes hosts the weekday primetime news commentary show All In with Chris Hayes and the podcast Why Is This Happening? on MSNBC. He is a bestselling author whose books include Twilight of the Elites, A Colony in a Nation, and The Sirens' Call.
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2said about them ↓ Everything Chris Hayes said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hayes: X Serves Elon Musk's Political Project Rather Than Pure Attention
“X very clearly has an objective other than attention, which is the political project of its owner. You know what I mean? So like, there's a place where like, yes, that attention is being aggregated for a specific political process. Project. That political proj…”
Hayes: Musk's Twitter takeover converted political power into financial gains via Trump
“What it did was it created a kind of political power That then created financial rewards on the backside, because once you get Donald Trump elected, all of a sudden everyone wants to be your buddy, and your stock price goes up.”
Hayes: Regulating and capping screen time or attention consumption is not crazy
“I don't think that's a crazy idea. I mean, I don't want the Chinese model for a lot of things, but you know, there are some, certain things the Chinese are pretty good at. I think that we can, if we can regulate, you know, the argument I make in the book about…”
Hayes: Attention capitalism is about to collapse from AI pollution
“I sort of think like the whole thing is about to collapse. I think there's just a huge pollution problem, and I think that, you know, the treatment of spam in the book is, you know, the sort of signature pollution of attention capitalism of the attention age.”
Hayes: Social Media Democratizes the Psychological Madness of Fame
“The reason fame makes people go crazy is because we're not conditioned properly to deal with social attention from strangers. What we have done is democratize the madness of fame for everyone. Now everyone can have an inflow of social attention from strangers …”
Hayes: TikTok's model outcompetes all media like casino slot machines
“And I basically think that the TikTok model, which is like short form video married to machine learning is the, like,
The way that slot machines outcompete everything on a casino floor, I just think that, like, outcompetes everything.”
Digital Creators Now Reverse Engineer Algorithms Instead of Producing Original Art
“There's a little bit of the, this reversing, like, what will sell out there? What will get attention? And then you reverse engineer and make that content, as opposed to, I have this to say. I want to write this poem. I want to make this song, like, I want to m…”
Hayes: Biden's age and inflation explain 85% of 2024 election outcome
“Biden was old and inflation was high. It gets you, like, 85% of the way there, the causal story, and I think if you look across basically every democracy holding elections in the post-COVID age of inflation, the penalty against incumbency was, like, high range…”
Hayes: AI attention optimization alienates users from what they actually care about
“It totally alienates you from what you want to pay attention to.”
Hayes: Audiences will eventually rebel against AI-generated content slop
“Fundamentally there's something irreducibly human and That people are going to just rebel, but basically will rebel against slop”
Hayes: Useful technology and lucrative technology are fundamentally distinct
“We tend to conflate, particularly in this era, like, useful tech and lucrative tech, and those are not, like, there's technologies that are incredibly useful that are not particularly lucrative, like penicillin right now, like antibiotics are not, it's not, no…”
Hayes: Cultural homogenization is erasing regional political differences across the US
“Increasingly, there is this kind of homogenization happening where, you know, all sort of rural folks of certain demographics more and more vote like each other and also kind of like listen to the same music and have the same kind of Omniculture.”
Hayes: Most internet advertising remains bad, schlocky, and ineffective
“For all of that being true, it's amazing how sort of bad schlocky and ineffective most internet advertising is.”
Hayes: VR headsets exist to mine every remaining waking second of attention
“And that's why VR is so important from that, because If you have it literally every second, you've just unlocked this enormous new landscape of, like, you've discovered these, like, new deep sea reserves, right? That, that no one had before the now, every, lit…”
Hayes: AI and growth incentives are collapsing the open web
“And in some ways with the use of AI, like, you know, the entire open web that was the basis for the first iteration of Google is collapsing underneath it.”
Hayes: Solar gets less hype than AI because it's less lucrative
“Partly because it's not that lucrative, I think in the end. But also it's not that intentionally salient in the way that AI is.”
New York Times Reporters Are Insulated From Direct Traffic Monetization
“A reporter at the New York Times is insulated from that. Like, they have a salary. Their livelihood doesn't go up or down. Like, there's a certain degree to which traffic is a coin of the realm institutionally, but they don't have, like, a direct monetary ince…”
Recommendation Algorithms Strip Media of Human Editorial Purpose
“The TikTok algorithm has no purpose other than that attentional purpose. And this is true even of, like, media companies, even NBC News or ABC News or Hollywood producers and directors. Like, they want big hits, yes, but they're also human beings that have, li…”
Hayes: Musk's Media Play Mirrors Rupert Murdoch's Strategy
“I don't, in some ways I don't think what Musk is doing is that different than what Rupert Murdoch has done. Are both attentional plays, right?”
Most Social Media Platforms Except WhatsApp Face Declining Daily Active Users
“Most of the platforms are seeing declines in daily active users. WhatsApp is going up. Snapchat, eh, but, like, most of them are going down.”
Hayes: Users will reject TikTok and algorithmic feeds for new alternatives
“I think people are going to start to turn off from the algorithms, from TikTok. Like, we're leading towards a moment of rejection where people are going to want something different.”
Hayes: Ad Tech Remains Highly Opaque With Pervasive Audience Fraud
“So I think one of the interesting critiques of ad tech is that, like, it's still a lot more opaque than you would imagine. The answer to this question, like, are, like, there's a lot of indications that there's just a lot of chum and maybe fraud, fraud's a leg…”
Hayes: Trump dominates politics by capturing public attention at all costs
“Trump's core insight is that attention's the most valuable resource, and getting it at all costs is the best way to dominate politics, and he's set himself to doing that in a bunch of novel ways.”
Hayes: Public attention changed Elon Musk far more than Donald Trump
“I think Musk has been changed by it more than Trump has. I think, well, no, I just think he's been this way from an early time. For a long time. Whereas Musk, there's an interesting, over the trajectory of his career, it was very hard to, like, get Musk to tal…”
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