Reddit Revolts, Media Armageddon, AI Fakes In Politics — With Sara Fischer

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sara Fischer is the senior media reporter at Axios and media analyst at CNN. She joins Big Technology Podcast for our weekly discussion of the week's tech news. We cover: 1) The rebellion at Reddit 2) Rampant media job losses 3) The push of ad money to retail 4) Whether we should share our personal information inside ChatGPT and other LLMs 5) Political misinformation via AI generated text and images 6) The cost of always trying to distinguish real from fake 7) The White House's War on Junk Fees. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
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0:31.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our
0:35.5	traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:38.4	We have a great guest for you today.
0:40.8	Sarah Fisher is here.
0:42.0	She is a senior media reporter at Axios and a media analyst at CNN.
0:47.2	We have so many stories to get into the big Reddit strike, what's happening with Google the latest on AI. And of course, one of my favorites.
0:56.8	Are we going to end junk fees in the U.S.? I think the time has come.
1:00.4	Sarah, it's so great to have you on. Welcome to the show.
1:03.3	Thanks for having me. Great to see you.
1:05.5	Okay, why don't we start with the story of Reddit? So the company has been dealing with a large strike from many of the moderators
1:14.6	of its subreddits. People are saying, okay, you know, maybe this is the end of Reddit. As we know it,
1:20.6	I know you've been following the story closely. What's your read on what's happening and where it goes
1:24.7	from here? Yeah, it's a good question. Reddit is so important to culture in the US.
1:29.3	Oftentimes, and I'm Googling things,
1:31.3	and I can't find an answer to something specific.
1:33.3	I'm going to get a Reddit thread.
1:35.3	It's coming up in my search engine.
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