I think the media guys think the tech guys started.

And the tech guys think the media guys started it.

I think the media guys started by economically disrupting them.

I think this is why we're seeing such a resurgence in live streaming and interest in these

sort of like communal experiences because like live is something that is so hard to face.

It is such a like a human thing.

We actually need to have decentralized cryptographic truth that's not behind a paywall that anybody can verify no matter how poor they are, no matter what.

I think just like you should not be subject non-consensually to government surveillance, you shouldn't be subject non-consensually to corporate surveillance.

Okay, but what about an independent media reporter? Is that okay?

What happens when anyone or anything can generate information at scale?

AI is making it easier than ever to create content, but much harder to verify it.

As agents generate text, images, and even identities, the systems we've relied on for trust,

from media institutions to social

networks, start to break down. In response, new ideas are emerging, cryptographic verification,

decentralized identity, and new forms of social coordination that aim to prove what's real,

rather than simply asserted. But these shifts also raise deeper questions about privacy, accountability, and the role of journalism in an AI-driven world.

To understand and debate what comes next, Theo Jaffe speaks with Bologi Srinivasa and Taylor Lorenz.

And so I think as much as I like AI within the digital tribe, it accelerates coding,

it's great for search, all this kind of stuff.

Between digital tribes, it's often bad because it's just, you know, AI agents spamming

50 different people with a resume or a sales email or something like that and just

breaks the commons and so we're going to need to have I think a whole new generation of human only social networks

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