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EPISODE · Aug 14, 2026 · 1H 1M

The Provenance Problem

from People vs Algorithms · host Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, and Alex Schleifer

Suno makes real songs harder to tell from fake. Launch videos are coming across as fake — and the engagement is fake. Drawing the line between creative tool and robot authorship is fuzzy. We debate people’s right to know what AI made and the role of regulation. Plus: Bobby Fingers as AI antidote, Meta’s open source push, the Great GDP Debate, media’s exit from the attention economy, and the brand problem Democrats face from Woke 1.* Watch us on YouTube* Troy Young’s People vs Algorithms newsletter* Brian Morrissey’s The Rebooting newsletter* Alex Schleifer’s Human Computer* Follow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter* Join our community - PvA Field NotesChapters:* 00:00 Open* 00:31 Welcome* 04:38 Field Notes Update* 06:16 Anthropic Watermarking* 09:40 Provenance Problem* 22:42 Meta Back in AI* 35:28 NVIDIA Compute Futures* 37:17 Media Survival Playbook* 40:19 Bobby Fingers Craft Era* 47:27 GDP Beyond the Numbers* 50:52 Woke 1.0 Aftermath* 01:01:00 Credits This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peoplevsalgorithms.com

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