1/200 S2E61 - Journalism, Media Funding and AI

What this episode covers

Description David Farrier joins us to discuss the advent of AI in the media space, recent lay-offs and the funding structures that led us here. We go into broader detail about the forces driving these issues, particularly in the tech industry, and what hope there is for journalism. This episode’s co-hosts Mark, Kyle, David Timestamps 0:00 Introductions 2:20 Google’s AI Publishing 5:05 Will AI Stick in Publications 7:15 Spam in a New Era 12:05 The Purpose of Media  14:40 The Cost of a Newsroom 17:57 New Zealand's Extreme and Conspiracy Media 24:22 How AI Makes This Worse 28:46 Discovery’s Impact 30:20 New Zealand Exceptionalism  32:47 Anti-Journalist Brainrot 34:00 News Scraping 35:28 Tech v News 37:33 Tech Buying Politics 39:09 Investing in Newsrooms 42:01 Restabilization of News Media 45:29 Tech Taking Over News Filtering 51:15 Pushing Back on How AI is Sold 54:49 Community Overrides All 56:52 Closings Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive Support us here: https://www.patreon.com/1of200