EPISODE · Apr 16, 2024 · 48 MIN
News Aggregation in an AI World, With Alex Fink
from The Media Copilot · host The Media Copilot
This week on The Media Copilot podcast I’m thrilled to talk to Alex Fink. Alex is the founder and CEO of Otherweb, a news aggregator that uses AI to give readers a healthier news diet than your average social media feed. Instead of optimizing for outrage or clickbait, Otherweb favors “kale over cake” — an analogy we come back to a few times in the conversation. Alex has an interesting career. After working for a long time in computer vision, he decided the world had enough cameras and decided to focus instead on the decisions technology could help with rather than the tech itself. Otherweb isn’t his first rodeo — he’s been a founder twice before and a very astute observer of the media business. He’s full of great observations about the arguably corrupted incentives of ad-based media, which helps to guide Otherweb and the way it ranks and serves up content. You can check out Otherweb here: https://otherweb.com/ The Media Copilot is a podcast and newsletter that explores how generative AI is changing media, journalism, and the news. Subscribe to the newsletter. Explore our courses on how to use AI tools, tailored for media, marketers, PR professionals, and other content creators. Follow us on X. Subscribe to the podcast on: Apple Spotify Other podcast apps Music: Favorite by Alexander Nakarada, licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License © AnyWho Media 2024
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This week on The Media Copilot podcast I’m thrilled to talk to Alex Fink. Alex is the founder and CEO of Otherweb, a news aggregator that uses AI to give readers a healthier news diet than your average social media feed. Instead of optimizing for outrage or clickbait, Otherweb favors “kale over cake” — an analogy we come back to a few times in the conversation. Alex has an interesting career. After working for a long time in computer vision, he decided the world had enough cameras and decided to focus instead on the decisions technology could help with rather than the tech itself. Otherweb isn’t his first rodeo — he’s been a founder twice before and a very astute observer of the media business. He’s full of great observations about the arguably corrupted incentives of ad-based media, which helps to guide Otherweb and the way it ranks and serves up content. You can check out Otherweb here: https://otherweb.com/ The Media Copilot is a podcast and newsletter that explores how generative AI is changing media, journalism, and the news. Subscribe to the newsletter. Explore our courses on how to use AI tools, tailored for media, marketers, PR professionals, and other content creators. Follow us on X. Subscribe to the podcast on: Apple Spotify Other podcast apps Music: Favorite by Alexander Nakarada, licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License © AnyWho Media 2024
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