Lessin: Media will bifurcate into AI slop and expensive elite newsletters
Sam Lessin · #42: OpenAI, IP Theft and a New Incentive Structure for the Internet · More or Less Podcast · Apr 12, 2024 · at 28:02
Sam Lessin, general partner at Slow Ventures, argues that AI models scraping open media will force high-quality reporting into high-priced private newsletters.
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“The future is going to be almost like, this is what happened after the printing press is the news got super scummy and shitty, and all the elites retreated to super high price Italian private newsletters to know what was actually going on in the world. That's just what's going to happen again, right? Like the clearing price, no information is zero. There'll be a lot of crap out there. And then people who really care or have a stake in reality, which by the way, is the minority of humans, right? Are going to pay a shitload for things that are not available to the models.”
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