David Pearce

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14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

And also Verizon's been doing it for a pretty long time now. voice-verified

Um, all right, I have one more lightning round item for you. voice-verified

Uh, and it's about Snapchat, which I like to remind everyone on this show from time to time is a terrible business and a massively culturally relevant piece of software. voice-verified

Uh they announced on their earnings call that there are 971 million monthly active users of Snapchat, which is just a gigantic number. voice-verified

And uh especially among young people, it is utterly ubiquitous. voice-verified

Snapchat still exists. voice-verified

Specs are going to be terrible. voice-verified

Snapchat still exists. voice-verified

But Snapchat also did a thing this week that I thought was very interesting and very telling. voice-verified

Um, Snapchat famously like one or two turns ahead of everybody else when it comes to product. voice-verified

Evan Spiegel, the CEO, still, I think still on his LinkedIn, calls himself the head of product at Meta, which is a very funny joke that I have always appreciated. voice-verified

But Snapchat is now going to attempt to not recommend what it calls holy AI generated videos in its feeds anymore. voice-verified

Uh and I'm just gonna read you a quote from the press release. voice-verified

It says, as low quality, repetitive, AI generated content becomes increasingly common across the internet, we want Spotlight to remain a place where people can discover authentic creativity from real people because we believe there's enduring value in rewarding original perspectives, personal storytelling, and the moments that people choose to create and voice-verified

Share themselves. voice-verified

You know who agrees with that is everybody. voice-verified

Except the companies that are desperately trying to lower the cost of content even further so that it can just all be AI, right? voice-verified

Like all the stuff we're talking about with Disney Plus and TikTok and YouTube, like follow that down far enough and it's just feeds of AI content everywhere you look. voice-verified

And there is an obvious cultural revolt against that in progress. voice-verified

And I think it is really interesting to see Snapchat, which tends to be first to see this stuff and do something about it. voice-verified

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