Matthew Prince

content, which really matters, then they will like kind of the science projects that we sort of all imagine them to be today.

And I actually think, yes, that will change the media landscape.

But I think most people, consumers, most journalists will actually say, wow, I wish that I could do more of those local kind of interesting stories and less of the me too, you know, what's happening in the White House today.

My even simpler version of that is that, you know, there are publications out there, sort of the BuzzFeeds and Huffington Post of the world.

who saw their job not necessarily as what do we write in the contents of the article that we write?

It was largely derivative.

But they saw their job as how do we write a headline which generates so much rage or generates so much fear?

that it will actually get somebody to click on it, like rage bait headlines that were out there.

I risk getting on the soapbox.

But I think a lot of what's wrong with the world today is that we've just been rage baited into being kind of extreme in a lot of different ways.

And I think that that is at some level because Google taught us that traffic was the ultimate deity that we should all be chasing after.

And again, Google, I think, is a massive force of good on the Internet.

But Google begets Facebook, which begets TikTok, which feels like we're sort of just spiraling down this attention economy hole that's out there chasing traffic.

And yet traffic has never been a good proxy for value.

If there's a car accident on the road, you know, it's not like, you know, just because everyone stopped and looked at it means that that's actually a good thing.

We don't want car accidents on the road.

What we want are actually things that are making humanity better.

And what I'm encouraged by is for the first time in human history,

we effectively have a mathematical model for the representation of all of human knowledge.

Like you smash Anthropic and OpenAI and Gemini and everything together, and you get a pretty good model for what human knowledge is.