Slate Money - Why America’s Internet Sucks
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Slate Money hacks the mainframe! Washington Post tech writer Shira Ovide joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers to discuss what’s wrong with America’s internet industry, how YouTube became the media empire no one talks about, and the promise and peril of the AI toothbrush. In the Plus segment: OpenAI is using YouTube to train ChatGPT. Is that legal?
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| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and places like that. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm here with my colleague Emily Pet Kovacsios. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey Felix. |
| 0:27.0 | We have a tech heavy episode today |
| 0:31.0 | and it is a particularly wonderful and brilliant tech heavy |
| 0:36.0 | episode because we have the smartest person in tech on the show. |
| 0:41.5 | Shira Overday, welcome back. |
| 0:43.2 | Thank you. Smartest, really? |
| 0:45.0 | Smartest, 100%. |
| 0:46.4 | I'll take the compliment. |
| 0:49.0 | Shira, who are you? |
| 0:50.8 | Introduce yourself? |
| 0:51.7 | I am Shira Overday. I write the Tech Friend newsletter at the Washington Post. |
| 0:56.4 | Google it. Sign up. It's free. And you are going to help walk us through the fust to cluck that is internet service in the United States and why it's so |
| 1:06.0 | terrible. We are going to talk about YouTube and how mind-bogglingly enormous it is. We have a segment on the AI hype machine and how it's gone |
| 1:18.4 | out of control. We have a whole slate-plus segment on where the AI is getting their data to train themselves |
| 1:25.6 | on. |
| 1:26.6 | It's all coming up on Slate Money is sponsored this week by Progressive Insurance. If you are a |
| 1:39.0 | podcast listener and I know you are you might like true crime or you might like comedy or you might like |
| 1:44.3 | celebrity interviews or you might even like wonkish podcasts about business and finance what is certain is that you are the one |
| 1:52.0 | calling the shots on what's in your podcast queue? |
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