Mon. 06/12 – Why Your Favorite Subreddit Might Go Dark.

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Why your favorite subreddit might be going dark. Why a16z opened an office in the UK. Why AI seems to be recycling the same few dozen jokes when you ask it to be funny. A new AI music generation tool. And the first reviews of the 15-inch Macbook Air. Sponsors: CrashPlan.com go.tech/tm Links: Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks (The Verge) Andreessen Horowitz believes that crypto's future may be in the U.K. (Axios) Meta's open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs (The Decoder) Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (ArsTechnica) How AI art killed an indie book cover contest (The Verge) Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: exactly what was asked for (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Main Right Home for Monday, June 12th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.6	Why your favorite subreddit might be going dark?
0:11.2	Why A16Z opened an office in the UK, why AI seems to be recycling the
0:16.0	same few dozen jokes when you ask it to be funny, a new AI music generation tool and the first
0:21.9	reviews of the 15- Macbook air. Here's what you missed
0:25.2	today in the world of tech. Maybe you heard over the weekend about Red Arc.
0:35.0	Thousands of Sub-redits going dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on
0:40.6	API changes made in an ask-me-
0:43.4	anything on June 9th.
0:45.3	It's kind of the biggest story in tech right now.
0:47.1	Basically as Chris France puts it on Twitter,
0:50.1	Reddit has been relying on an army of unpaid volunteers to moderate their platform.
0:54.1	They mishandled API pricing, and now they're losing control of their platform.
0:58.8	Though my question would be, did they ever really have control?
1:02.0	Reddit is not legally owned by its various communities, but de facto it is?
1:07.0	If they ever forget the delicate power balance therein,
1:10.0	Reddit could lose everything.
1:12.0	That's the tight rope being walked right now, I think. then, Reddit could lose everything.
1:12.6	That's the tight rope being walked right now, I think,
1:15.4	quoting the verge.
1:16.8	More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark,
1:19.4	and thousands more plan to follow in protest
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