Eric Newcomer

story tracker.

I think we're trying to be creative.

I don't want AI-written stuff in our stories, but I do have existential questions about the fifth sentence in the third paragraph.

If AI puts out a better version than you were going to spend the time to do, is it really a disservice to readers that you went in and punched that up?

I think it's probably good for readers.

It's hard to have this super hard line of

all human written stuff because we certainly want it for, it's a great copy editor.

You know, I pay a human copy editor, but still I run stuff through Claude and it's amazing how much it's catching both, you know, it'll catch like million billion type errors, math, and obviously all sorts of minor typos, so.

We could have ones that's like, take out all the perfunctory lines of stories that they feel inclined to put, and you can, you know, read both versions or something.

I would like that version a lot of times.

When you think about disruption for like a newsletter or media business, however you want to describe it, the only person I think would actually be able to compete, like you weirdly need like a network, you need like trust, you need like.

you need, there's so much like information that I would say informs your work and, and other, um, other journalists that, that run similar businesses.

That's just like not anywhere online.

Like it truly only exists in, you know, a small like group chat or, or places like that.

And so the question is like, I don't think a fully, I don't think AI can like actually just like somebody with AI that is able to build up the trust and the network and the,

kind of understanding of the space, yeah, that person is like, if they're willing to just use more AI than you and they don't care about the slop allegations or whatever, then maybe they have some type of advantage.

But I still feel like more than ever, there's so much information that you need to run a great media business that is not anywhere on the internet.

It's not in podcasts.

It's not on X. You just have to go actually talk to people.

We play nice with R for Rock, but honestly, it's people in the industry giving it away for free, the desperation for basically content marketing, meaning that some people do a good job of taking their data and using it to get attention.