I think the sort of web search feels like a declining stock and publishers who are really wedded to it just feel like they're going to be squeezed into being low quality AI written garbage content farms. Right now, a junior staffer is being paid a living wage at a lot of places to bang out three or four posts every single day. So what is your AI strategy at semaphore? And how are you thinking about this new world of generative AI?
A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-generated songs the way forward? Or can singers benefit from synthetic voices, as some artists like Grimes are suggesting?
Then, HatGPT: Kevin and Casey pull headlines out of a hat and generate their own takes on the news.
And Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed News editor, discusses the end of the 2010s digital media era.
On today’s episode:
Ben Smith is a journalist and co-founder of the digital media company Semafor. He was a New York Times media columnist and the first editor in chief of BuzzFeed News.