What Next TBD: Will A.I. Close Off the Internet?

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Reddit announced it will start charging companies to use its huge, ever-growing trove of text to train A.I. chatbots. It’s another expense for the fledgling tech and another knock against the “open internet” ideals that Reddit once embodied. Guest: Mike Isaac, tech reporter for the New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Really? Come on, let's go.
0:05.0	Hear that? That's the sound of my customers leaving.
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0:30.0	A quick heads up before we get started.
0:31.9	There is a little light swearing in this episode.
0:35.3	Okay, here's the show.
0:41.1	Okay. swearing in this episode. Okay, here's the show. Are you a Reddit, dude?
0:44.6	Do I have to admit it? Yes, I am. I'm secretly a Reddit person.
0:50.0	That's reporter Mike Isaac, who writes about tech for the New York Times, and whose Reddit life, sorry Mike, is no longer secret.
0:58.3	I kind of was thinking maybe you were. What subreddits do you hang out on?
1:04.1	I have, like, multiple accounts because I have, like, a work account, and then I have a secret account because I don't want people to actually know when I'm
1:11.5	talking and then I have like I think I had like a book promotion account but so anyway I try
1:18.9	to keep track of them but um mostly for fun for pleasure I hang out and like ask me anything
1:26.4	or the child free subreddit for people complaining about
1:30.8	children or which is insane or I don't know if I can say this on the air. Am I the asshole subreddit
1:38.0	basically? Which is like that's a very good one. Yeah, I have people explaining messed up
1:42.9	situations and then like cooking and boring stuff like that.
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