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Nicholas Carlson: Advanced generative AI features are already becoming weirdly commoditized

Nicholas Carlson · The Signal Scandal & DOGE Drama! (with Ben Smith and Nicholas Carlson) | More or Less #92 · More or Less Podcast · Mar 28, 2025 · at 48:47

Nicholas Carlson, founder of Dynamo, analyzes the rapid commoditization of generative AI features across consumer and enterprise applications.

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“One of the things I've observed about AI recently is it's weirdly commoditized for, like, an incredibly advanced technology. If you want to, like, find a video, a technology that can take a video, And make it so your mouth looks like it's speaking a foreign language. You have 20 options, you know?”

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