Slate Money: Why America’s Internet Sucks

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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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? If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our regular show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:17.7	I'm Felix Sampman of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and places like
0:21.9	that. Hello. I'm here with my colleague Emily Peck of Axios. Hey, Felix. We have a tech-heavy
0:30.0	episode today and it is a particularly wonderful and brilliant tech-heavy episode because we have the smartest person in tech on the show.
0:41.9	Shira Overday, welcome back.
0:43.3	Thank you.
0:43.8	Smartest, really?
0:44.9	Smartest, 100%.
0:46.3	I'll take the compliment.
0:48.8	Shira, who are you?
0:50.8	Introduce herself.
0:51.7	I am Shira Overday.
0:52.6	I write the Tech Friend newsletter at The Washington Post.
0:56.5	Google it, sign up.
0:57.6	It's free.
0:58.3	And you are going to help walk us through the fuss to clock that is Internet service in the United
1:05.1	States and why it's so terrible.
1:06.9	We are going to talk about YouTube and how mind-boggling enormous it is.
1:13.3	We have a segment on the AI hype machine and how it's gone out of control.
1:19.7	We have a whole Slate Plus segment on where the AIs are getting their data to train themselves on.
1:26.2	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:30.3	After 21 defeats in a row, Harry Rednapps trying one last roll of the dice.
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