Matthew Prince

Like if you go to an ad based site, you're the product, right?

The customer is the advertiser, right?

The customer is whoever pays you.

That's not how most people think about it.

If you found a different way where you're actually doing something like a micropayment, now all of a sudden you're the customer, which means that the journalist is about serving you as opposed to about serving the advertiser.

And so I think that there's a way that going forward, this could be really healthy.

And so I don't want to diminish, just because there are problems doesn't mean it doesn't make the world better.

But I also think it's important to just say it's not a panacea.

There are still going to be challenges.

We're going to still have to figure out our way through them.

And we should be cognizant of those as we design this.

And think about what do we want the future to look like?

The way I describe it is I want a future where there are not five AI companies.

There are 500,000 AI companies.

How do we make that as easy as possible?

I want a future where there's not a few content creators, but there's an explosion where anyone can be a content creator, anyone can share truth, and it's accessible, and they get compensated for it if it's actually valuable.

And then I want a world where businesses large and small can compete and thrive on a really fair playing field.

And as I think about this, those are the goals that I'm playing for.

And I think that's that it's actually pretty easy alignment around policymakers, most Internet users, you know, even most most AI companies say that's kind of what what we want as well.

I love that goal.