Meghan McCarty Carino

Right.

I mean, I'm sure this kind of facility would be, you know, kind of something that states would be fighting over.

Often we sort of see in clean energy projects and, you know, these big kind of facilities that they often do go to red states and not, you know, New York and blue states that have, you know, a bit more of these processes in place.

And I think it does raise kind of an interesting question

tension in especially this kind of effort to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States.

You know, there's a reason that a lot of those fabs moved overseas.

There is a kind of, you know, challenge in bringing this industry back and making it sustainable.

Of course, I can see why a community would have these concerns and, you know, want to ensure that there are social benefits, especially if taxpayer dollars are being involved.

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We're back with Paresh Devay, senior writer at Wired.

All right.

Finally, this week, we want to talk about some YouTube news.

This week, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan published a letter laying out kind of the goals for the platform for 2026, which includes apparently cracking down on AI slop.

This has kind of become, you know, a big issue on all social media platforms.

AI content tends to generate a lot of engagement, whether I think people like it or not.

But the YouTube CEO said, you know, they're going to use these same kind of algorithmic filters that they use to flag spam and clickbait on YouTube to also flag AI slop.

This kind of seems actually like a pretty difficult challenge because it seems like a fine line between, you know, what is clickbait?

What is slop?