Matthew Prince

With open AI, it's 1,500 times harder.

With Anthropic, it's 60,000 times harder.

And so if you're doing the work, if you're a journalist that's doing the work of creating things or you're an academic that's doing the work of creating things,

And these AI companies are coming in, they're taking all the work that you do, but they're not giving you anything back.

They're not compensating you in any way.

Like over time, I don't think it's just the independent publications.

I think that anyone who's doing content creation has to be crazy to continue to do content creation.

Why would you do it if there's no business model behind it?

Like, you know, yeah, sure, maybe at the edges there are going to be people who do it just because they love it.

But that's a really small universe.

People have to eat.

And so journalists have to get paid somehow.

And if the way that we're going to be consuming information is through these AI systems, that's going to change the business model.

What I think people don't totally understand is, like, the Internet has gone through a number of different platform shifts.

Like, we went from browsing the web on our laptop or desktop on a browser to then social media.

and basically consuming information largely through social, and then to mobile.

And through each of those, the ad-based business model has stayed the same.

AI is yet another platform shift.

The frame that you're going to view content through is going to be through your helpful AI agent.

But what's different about it