CNN is in charge of every aspect of Thursday's Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years; rival channels will leave CNN's on-air watermark untouched (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

Mediagazer: CNN is in charge of every aspect of Thursday's Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years; rival channels will leave CNN's on-air watermark untouched (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)

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Washington Post:

WaPo and The News Movement, in which Will Lewis holds a stake, agreed in recent months to pursue brand partnerships; TNM made two major pitches involving WaPo— William Lewis holds a stake in a start-up that has reached a deal with The Post to collaborate.
Discussion: The Atlantic, Financial Times, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @davidbeard@threads.net, @obrien_kat@mastodon.world, Diane Ravitch's blog, @farhip, Politico, @ianshapira, @dastonerl, @davidrlurie, @zackstanton, @noahshachtman@threads.net, @yonetteajoseph@threads.net, The Daily Beast and CNN

Discussion:

Anne Applebaum /
The Atlantic: Readers Don't Trust Dirty Tricks Financial Times: Washington Post publisher Will Lewis retains links to PR firm that bears his initials

Dan Gillmor /
@dangillmor@mastodon.social: Bezos is ultimately (justly, since he's the owner) responsible for the ongoing mess at the Washington Post. — But it would be smart for some news organization to look deeply into the role of former Microsoft (and Gates foundation) senior executive Patty Stonesifer. …

Dave Beard /
@davidbeard@threads.net: “Whenever Lewis attempts to ignore the fire burning under him by stiffing the press, it only pours nitromethane on the story and encourages reporters to widen their search for answers. You don't have to be a PR executive to figure this out.” - Jack Shafer, @politico @obrien_kat@mastodon.world: The tabloidization of everything is terrible for society, and the Washington Post shouldn't go down that path. — By @anneapplebaum — https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... #journalism #democracy #washingtonpost — [image]

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: And once again, the @washingtonpost's publisher is MIA when his own reporters come knocking: “Lewis declined to respond directly to a list of questions about his business interests and how he has managed potential conflicts.”

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: How many ways can @WashingtonPost publisher William Lewis challenge the paper's traditional ethics and standards? Well, here's a new one: an investment in a company that has done business with the Post, creating a potential conflict with his Post role: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Jack Shafer /
Politico: For Post's Lewis, Credibility Dies in Silence

Ian Shapira /
@ianshapira: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... “Lewis declined to respond directly to a list of questions about his business interests and how he has managed potential conflicts.” @dastonerl: @ianshapira Will Lewis the networker “Dear Friend,” he wrote in his Jan. 27 newsletter, “I feel immensely privileged to have had two parties thrown in my honour this week. ... It was a pleasure to meet so many pillars of Washington's political and media communities.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @davidrlurie: Lewis, and it appears, the Washington Post, are in business with the Qataris, the leading mass propagandists for Hamas, and owners of Al Jazeera. Washington Post publisher retains ties to past business ventures https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Zack Stanton /
@zackstanton: Hmm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Noah Shachtman /
@noahshachtman@threads.net: Does this seem kosher to you? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Yonette Joseph /
@yonetteajoseph@threads.net: Nice to see Wapo going hard on this line of reporting. A digital start-up launched by Washington Post publisher William Lewis entered into a deal with The Post that allows the two companies to pursue deals together. Lewis still holds a financial stake in the firm, the News Movement, which he co-founded in 2020. …

Norman Pearlstine /
The Daily Beast: Why Jeff Bezos Is Failing The Washington Post

Oliver Darcy /
CNN: Jeff Bezos is under fire at the Washington Post as patience wears thin among staffers

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The Atlantic:
Scrutiny of Will Lewis' past is essential because WaPo's credibility has been built upon readers' trust that its reporters don't engage in deceptive practices

Discussion:
@nxthompson: “Threats against journalists are rising. The Post and other newsrooms should defend the values and practices that produce journalism in the public interest, and that cynical forces would like to see swept away.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

Jill Geisler /
@jillgeisler: Important read: @clearing_fog: 📝 The fact that WaPo CEO Will Lewis and others used hacked/stolen data to create damaging stories about people at a Murdoch outlet in the UK is relevant for another reason: There is credible evidence that the “Hunter laptop” story from Murdoch's NYPost was the exact same thing.

Adrienne LaFrance /
@adriennelaf: The great @mccrummens won a Pulitzer for her investigative work at the Washington Post. Here's her latest, on how Will Lewis lost the newsroom, and why it matters: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@threads.net: Yes. And the Murdochians must go. @_eileenie_@threads.net: The controversy around Lewis is not some small matter of different journalistic methods. The reputation of the Post newsroom has been built upon readers' trust that reporters do not pay sources, much less steal documents, hack computers, or engage in other deceptive news-gathering practices …

Lydia Polgreen /
@lpolgreen@threads.net: A sort of “savvy” take has emerged that American journalists take themselves too seriously and a bit of British cheek would help shake them out of their torpor. This is a helpful antidote to that lazy POV: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

Edward Luce /
Financial Times: The story we're missing on the Washington Post

Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: Why Lewis' checkbook journalism in the U.K. will taint The Washington Post

Oliver Darcy /
CNN: Washington Post will not bring in Robert Winnett as its top editor after report raised ethical questions

David Folkenflik /
NPR: After uproar over ethics, new ‘Washington Post’ editor won't take the job

Jared Mitovich /
Politico: Robert Winnett withdraws from becoming next Washington Post senior editor

Axios:

Filing: Vivek Ramaswamy's BuzzFeed stake grew to 8.9%; sources: Ramaswamy recently met Jonah Peretti and wants Patrick Bet-David and two others on BF board— - Ramaswamy has continued to increase his stake, this morning disclosing that it's risen to 8.9%.

Discussion:
@danprimack

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Bloomberg:

Sources: BuzzFeed is struggling to sell Hot Ones owner First We Feast, which is profitable and has ~$30M revenue per year; interested parties balk at $70M price— - Several parties are interested but balk at $70 million price — Proceeds of about $50 million would help company pay off debt

Discussion:
@thejidetaiwo, @webbarr, @ernie.tedium.co, @lucas_shaw, @drinksthethings.bsky.social and @kevdgrussing

Discussion:
@webbarr: seems like a no brainer... what am I missing here? Netflix / Beast (expand demos) / a24 / Fox (Tubi) / hmmm

Ernie Smith /
@ernie.tedium.co: Complex purchase, complex sale [embedded post]

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: Trouble behind the scenes at Hot Ones, the internet's favorite talk show. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Tony /
@drinksthethings.bsky.social: amazing that a website that gets $30 million in revenue per year can't be sold for a little over 2x that price. great media landscape we have here [embedded post]

New York Times:

Interviews with ~12 media executives, such as Brian Roberts, John Malone, Barry Diller, and Ted Sarandos, about the future of streaming, bundling, ads, and more— Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.

Discussion:

Elizabeth Newman /
Elizabeth Newman on LinkedIn: As the media landscape evolves, it's important to remember that there is no substitute for a great story, well told. It all starts on the page! …

David Vogler /
David Vogler on LinkedIn: Churn, Baby, Churn. — I've spent the better part of my career either building SVODs or making content to stream on SVODs. …

William /
William on LinkedIn: The New York Times has become the Streaming Wars historian recently. Focused on lost leadership, fruitless competition, expensive tech distractions and lessons ripping it apart. …

Robbie Kellman Baxter /
Robbie Kellman Baxter on LinkedIn: I'll admit it. — I subscribe to Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Hulu, Apple, Peacock, Max, and Paramount+. — But the average American subscribes to 4 streaming services at an average of $61/month. …

Stuart Coxe /
Stuart Coxe on LinkedIn: This is a buzzy article about the titans who lead the streaming companies. By the way, they are all white men, which is sort of odd in 2024. …

The Verge:

The RIAA files two copyright-infringement cases against the AI music services Suno and Udio; Udio was used to create the viral song BBL Drizzy— A group of record labels including the big three — Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Records …

Discussion:
The Wrap, Reuters, Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, Bloomberg, Music Ally, @carnage4life, Wired, CMU and Music Business Worldwide, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Natalie Korach /
The Wrap: Recording Industry Association Sues AI Companies for Copyright Infringement

Kristin Robinson /
Billboard: Major Labels Sue AI Firms Suno and Udio for Alleged Copyright Infringement

Ethan Millman /
Rolling Stone: AI's Most Ambitious Music Generators Infringed Thousands Of Songs, New Lawsuit Says

Stuart Dredge /
Music Ally: Labels body RIAA sues AI music firms Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: The major record labels are suing two AI music companies for training their LLMs on copyrighted music. The companies responded by saying the music they trained their AIs on are “confidential business information”. 🙃 [image]

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: AI training data on copyrighted works then competing with those same workers is becoming a theme. We're already seeing in it happen with content marketers but it won't stop there. https://www.theverge.com/...

Kate Knibbs /
Wired: US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

Chris Cooke /
CMU: Suno and Udio's “lawless” behaviour cheapens human creativity with sound-a-likes and knock-offs says watershed RIAA lawsuit

Daniel Tencer /
Music Business Worldwide: MAJOR RECORD COMPANIES SUE AI MUSIC GENERATORS SUNO, UDIO FOR ‘MASS INFRINGEMENT’ OF COPYRIGHT

New York Times:

CNN is in charge of every aspect of Thursday's Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years; rival channels will leave CNN's on-air watermark untouched— One network is in charge of every aspect of the Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years. Tens of millions of viewers are expected to be watching.

Discussion:
Gizmodo, The Hill, @matthewkeyslive, @bristei, @scarylawyerguy, @farhip, @markjacob16, @fcchambers, @jeremymbarr, @kairyssdal, @ronfilipkowski, Mediaite, Poynter, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times

Discussion:

Matt Novak /
Gizmodo: How to Watch the Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden This Week

Matthew Keys /
@matthewkeyslive: NEW: Fox News says it will air a simulcast of CNN's Presidential Debate on Thursday, June 27. The network will produce its own pre-debate and post-debate coverage.

Brian Steinberg /
@bristei: CNN's requirements to simulcast its 6/27 presidential debate are really onerous, says report in newspaper that declines to note it's controlled by the same family that owns Fox News.... https://nypost.com/... @scarylawyerguy: CNN could have fact checkers in Tapper's ear to do real time corrections or run a crawl at the bottom of the screen throughout the debate. Instead, they're fine letting Trump lie in real time knowing few people will stick around for the post-debate corrections. 🙃

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: Dunno which is the better rule in the @CNN presidential debate: the lack of a studio audience or the moderators' ability to cut off the microphone of whichever candidate doesn't have the floor.

Mark Jacob /
@markjacob16: CNN will fact-check the debate when it's over and everyone has switched to another channel. @fcchambers: @kairyssdal Sports commentators can pull up facts like “The last left-handed batter to score a double at home in the bottom of the third when down five runs against the Mets after a rain delay was Dave Lipschitz in 1972” in REAL TIME. And CNN can't fact-check in real time?

Jeremy Barr /
@jeremymbarr: Fox News announces it will be carrying CNN's presidential debate next Thursday, joining ABC News The official name for the presentation will be “FOX News Democracy 2024: CNN Presidential Debate,” which is kind of a mouthful.

Kai Ryssdal /
@kairyssdal: And herein lies the problem “David Chalian, CNN's political director, said that Thursday's live debate “is not the ideal arena for live fact-checking.” Instead, Ms. Bash and Mr. Tapper would focus on “facilitating the debate between these candidates, not being a participant in

Ron Filipkowski /
@ronfilipkowski: Trump agrees to a CNN debate and then his surrogates constantly whine that CNN is hosting the debate.

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Ex-Clinton Advisor: If ‘Really Old’ Candidates Are A Problem ‘Everyone Is Out of Luck’ No Matter Who Wins Election

Evan Osnos /
New Yorker: What Can We Expect from the Biden-Trump Debate?

Deadline:

Sony Pictures Networks India names Disney+ Hotstar content chief Gaurav Banerjee as its new Managing Director and CEO— Sony Pictures Networks India has named Disney+ Hotstar content chief Gaurav Banerjee as its new Managing Director and CEO. — He'll replace N.P. Singh …

Discussion:
WORLD SCREEN and Variety

Vulture:

Q&A with Don Klees, Acorn TV SVP of programming, and Courtney Thomasma, AMC Networks EVP of streaming, on Acorn TV's success, FAST channel potential, and more— This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!

Discussion:
@tvmojoe and Joy Phillips on LinkedIn

Discussion:
@tvmojoe: Anglophiles Assemble! For this week's BUFFERING, I talked to two execs at @AcornTV, the niche streamer specializing in cozy mysteries and other programming from around the world. Included: Some scoop on the possible return of LONDON KILLS. Up now @vulture: https://www.vulture.com/...

Financial Times:

Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO— Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform's financial health has struggled

Discussion:
PRWeek, Fortune, @carnage4life, The Overspill, @goldman@threads.net, @aohnsman@threads.net, @timfullerton@threads.net, @georgebetak@threads.net, @emoltzen@threads.net, @sherrilynifill@threads.net, @keubikooriginal@threads.net, @juditpetho@threads.net, @esghound and Reuters

Discussion:

Diana Bradley /
PRWeek: X appoints Nick Pickles to lead global communications

Christiaan Hetzner /
Fortune: Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man out at X as global operations chief reportedly given the sack

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: Musk is pressuring Linda Yaccarino to raise revenue and reduce expenses via more layoffs at X. Yaccarino recently fired a key exec because recent adult content policy changes spooked advertisers. Musk asked the CEO of Boring Company to review X's finances indicating lost faith [image]

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: Twitter struggled as a business pre-Musk and X is an even worse one. Musk clearly hates advertising and advertisers while is unable to come up with compelling enough features to make subscriptions work. https://www.ft.com/...

Charlesarthur /
The Overspill: Start Up No.2240: the UK mobile internet before data, AI pushes up US power demand, solar outpacing oil?, Hajj heat deaths, and more

Jason Goldman /
@goldman@threads.net: Good. Enjoy Hell.

Alan Ohnsman /
@aohnsman@threads.net: Musk taps the guy running a company he created that's going nowhere to fix one that he bought and is killing: “Steve Davis, a long-standing Musk ally and chief executive of his Boring Company, was brought in by the billionaire in April to review X's finances as well as performance management, said two people familiar with the matter.”

Tim Fullerton /
@timfullerton@threads.net: This was always Musk's plan with Yaccarino. Bring her in so he can scapegoat her for all the dumb things he has done to Twitter. The big question I have is why did she toss a very good career in the trash to go work for this clown?

George Betak /
@georgebetak@threads.net: “Yaccarino fired her right-hand man and head of business operations and communications, Joe Benarroch, this month, said three people familiar with the matter. Among other things, Yaccarino held Benarroch responsible for bungling the rollout of the platform's new adult content policy by failing to tell clients of the changes before it became public, two X employees said.”

Ed Moltzen /
@emoltzen@threads.net: The only shake-up that will work is an outright sale to a responsible party: https://www.reuters.com/...

Sherrilyn Ifill /
@sherrilynifill@threads.net: Because Musk is incompetent as the leader of a company. He can buy companies, invest in companies, dismantle companies. But he cannot successfully RUN a company. Why is it so hard for the wealthy to accept that other wealthy people can be incompetent? @keubikooriginal@threads.net: Yeah it's all her fault, Elon. Nothing to do with you telling your biggest customers to go f*ck themselves.

Judit Petho /
@juditpetho@threads.net: The news that should come as no surprise @esghound: The fate of Twitter, and of free speech online, rests in the hands of failed Tory politician Nick Pickles https://www.ft.com/... [image]

Poynter:

How local nonprofit newsrooms Mountain State Spotlight, Outlier Media, and Signal Ohio are serving their communities, and what they need to continue their work— These organizations are revolutionizing journalism at every level: how they are funded, how they write their stories and even how they find them.

Discussion:
@nickpozek, @poynter, @susanmcp1

Discussion:

Dr. Nick Pozek /
@nickpozek: More than half of U.S. counties lack a reliable local news source. However, Press Forward, a group of more than 25 funders, plans to invest over $500M to revitalize #localjournalism in underserved areas https://www.poynter.org/... #philanthropy @poynter: “We're in this period where a lot of the old models are dying and newer models are emerging — navigating that space is difficult. Coming up with a really good idea of how things could be better and proving that it works is one thing. Then making that a long-term, more sustainable

@poynter:
But they face a list of obstacles: How do you get people who have never heard of you to trust you? How do you get people to invest in news? How do they fill the gap of long-respected community institutions? [image]

Bloomberg:

Sources: Netflix has discussed creating free versions of its service in some markets, namely in Europe and Asia, but is not considering a free plan in the US— While Netflix is the biggest streaming service in Hollywood, it is barely in the top 10 for advertisers.

Discussion:
Lucas Shaw on LinkedIn and BGR

Variety:

Jamie Kellner, who launched Fox and The WB, created Acme Communications stations group, and ran Turner Broadcasting as chairman and CEO, died on June 21 at 77— Jamie Kellner, who made his name as the only exec ever to create two broadcast networks — Fox and The WB (both of which also …

Discussion:
Radio & Television …, Next TV, Deadline, The Ankler, Los Angeles Times, @jbflint, @wareinla, @foxkidsclub, @sodutw, @kriszellner, @blowryontv, @ourand_puck, @iandrewdiceclay, @mongo_ebooks, @brianrsolomon, @jbflint, @franklinavenue, @jjweiss1, @jbflint, Awful Announcing, Wall Street Journal, Adam Ware on LinkedIn, TVLine, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter

Discussion:

Adam Jacobson /
Radio & Television Business Report: Pioneering TV Industry Exec Jamie Kellner Loses Cancer Fight

Jed Petrick /
Next TV: ‘Jamie Kellner Changed My Life,’ Says Jed Petrick, Who Worked With Network-Builder at Fox and The WB (B+C Guest Blog)

Sean McNulty /
The Ankler: ☀️'Inside Out' + June Heatwave = Box Office Boom

Meredith Blake /
Los Angeles Times: TV executive Jamie Kellner, who helped create Fox and the WB, dies at 77

Joe Flint /
@jbflint: One of Jamie Kellner's visions was to merge CNN with ABC News. Talks went very deep but in the end the parent companies couldn't find enough compromise between them to close a deal. RIP Jamie Kellner. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ

Adam Ware /
@wareinla: Very sad day. I was lucky enough to have worked for Jamie in those early years at FOX (and on some very cool things)! Took on the Big 3 in prime and the Big 2 in kids (Disney Afternoon & WB Kids). No one really dared to before that. Jamie was definitely a maverick!! @foxkidsclub: We've lost one of the most important television executives of all time. He played a direct role in the founding of Fox and WB. He struck the Fox-WB deal that cemented Fox Kids as a real force. And his “teenage Batman” prompt inspired one of the greatest cartoons ever. RIP.

Kris Zellner /
@kriszellner: I hope that the @BTSheetsPod Patreon shows we did on WCW 2001 made people realize that Jamie Kellner has been too vilified in the demise of WCW when Brad Siegel & Stu Snyder were the true villains.... RIP

Brian Lowry /
@blowryontv: Age 77 shocked me, a reminder how young the brain trust was when Fox launched in the '80s. RIP

John Ourand /
@ourand_puck: This is true. Kellner was one of the savviest executives I've covered. RIP.

IANdrew Dice Clay /
@iandrewdiceclay: All joking aside, Jamie Kellner wasnt the reason WCW died. He's the reason it was taken off air, but that's a choice he was in a position to make. It wasnt him that lost $62 million in 2000. @mongo_ebooks: Really is a shame wrestling fans demonize Jamie Kellner, a man who did not hate wrestling, did not cancel WCW out of spite and liked wrestling when he was a kid.

Brian R. Solomon /
@brianrsolomon: Jamie Kellner, the man who actually killed WCW, has died—three days before the finale of “Who Killed WCW?” on Vice.

Joe Flint /
@jbflint: One of the more fun stories I did that involved Jamie Kellner was about the WB show ""Grosse Pointe," a parody of “90210” that hit a little to close to home for Aaron Spelling. RIP Jamie Kellner https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ

Michael Schneider /
@franklinavenue: Sad news to report. It was a pleasure to cover Jamie Kellner over the years as he built The WB into an iconic home for young talent. He was a TV visionary who truly did it right. RIP. https://variety.com/...

Jim Weiss /
@jjweiss1: @franklinavenue Mike we all know Time Warner selling to AOL was a disaster. Maybe the only positive move that happened was aol/pittman convincing Jamie to run us at Turner. It was great having a television visionary at the helm. Sincere condolences to his family, friends, including @bradturell

Joe Flint /
@jbflint: Here is a story I can say for sure Jamie Kellner didn't like. Me and @mvpeers did a lengthy piece about tensions between the Turner Networks under Kellner and the Warner Bros. TV business. RIP Jamie Kellner. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ

Michael Dixon /
Awful Announcing: Influential TV executive Jamie Kellner passes away at 77

Adam Ware /
Adam Ware on LinkedIn: Very sad day! I had the privilege of working for Jamie during the early years at FOX... challenged the Big 3 in prime time and the Big 2 …

Claire Franken /
TVLine: Jamie Kellner, TV Exec Who Launched Fox and The WB, Dead at 77

PCMag:

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place”— OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about AI's impact on creative professions.

Discussion:
@miramurati, Eric Marcoullier on LinkedIn, @zaphodgjd, Jan Rydzak on LinkedIn, @nbababysecret, @noellemitchell@mstdn.social, @andantonius, @perpetualmaniac, @olifranklin, @rahll, @dartmouth, @edzitron, @iamhappytoast, @meganroseruiz, @nealstephenson, @carnage4life, @nickmurftweets, @abebab, @carnage4life, @seamusblackley, @robertfreundlaw, @kevinbparry, @shakeelhashim, @its_adamneely, @thayerschool, Dartmouth Engineering on YouTube, @chrisg@fosstodon.org, @cake_of_canola_oil …, @darthbluesky.bsky.social, @moviessilently.bsky.social, @whet.bsky.social, @evacide.bsky.social, @gregpak.bsky.social, @rincewind.run, @cyanogic.com, @brooklynmarie.bsky.social, @jesseltaylor.bsky.social, @brendelbored.bsky.social, @rhymeswithnick.bsky.social, @jann@twit.social, Know Your Meme, BGR, r/singularity and r/Fauxmoi

Discussion:

Mira Murati /
@miramurati: At OpenAI, we're working to advance scientific understanding to help improve human well-being. The AI tools we are building, like Sora, GPT-4o, DALL·E and ChatGPT, are impressive from a technical standpoint. But what really matters is how they're starting to change the way we

Eric Marcoullier /
Eric Marcoullier on LinkedIn: OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati: “Some creative jobs will maybe go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place.” …

Graeme Devine /
@zaphodgjd: I want AI to let us all have creative jobs while AI is washing the dishes and weeding the garden.

Jan Rydzak /
Jan Rydzak on LinkedIn: In a week of prominent Freudian slips, this one stands out. — No company has a mandate to pass judgment on the value of jobs and livelihoods beyond their own. … @noellemitchell@mstdn.social: OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway — ""Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place," the CTO said of AI's role in the workplace. “ I really believe that using it as a tool for education, [and] creativity, will expand our intelligence. …

Jon Neimeister /
@andantonius: This is one of the most revolting things I've ever heard one of these leeches say. Their models are trained on OUR work and you have the AUDACITY to say our jobs shouldn't have existed in the first place? Mira, Sam, the lot of you, I say this with the utmost venom: go to hell. @perpetualmaniac: Remember how the elites said AI is nothing to worry about then they turn around and admit many jobs are going away but “maybe they shouldn't have existed at all in the first place.” More rug pulls coming.

Oli Franklin-Wallis /
@olifranklin: When you spend much time with tech people, as I have, you realise many are just like those who work for defence companies. They develop their own distorted ethics, in order to avoid the fact that what they do is morally unconscionable.

Reid Southen /
@rahll: This is insane. Won't say OpenAI didn't train on YouTube, and now basically implies some of those jobs shouldn't have been there in the first place if the “content is not very high quality.” So, they'll steal from and replace you if they think you're of “low quality”. Yikes. @dartmouth: .@OpenAI Chief Technology Officer @miramurati, @thayerschool '12, predicts that as AI gets smarter, it will not only be more helpful, but safer. Her thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence ⤵️ https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/ ...

Ed Zitron /
@edzitron: this is a declaration of war against creatives and it should be reported as such @iamhappytoast: 'Maybe artists shouldn't have existed' says woman who makes money stealing from those artists and destroying their careers while also pushing a tool that will put children off learning to paint or draw in the future.

Meg /
@meganroseruiz: The thing that gets me about Gen AI is that it literally doesn't have to exist. It doesn't fill a previously untapped market. The only thing it accomplishes is making it easier for corporations to avoid paying creative people. It's useless. Also Mira Murati's job shouldn't exist

Neal Stephenson /
@nealstephenson: Started a Substack. Have soft-pedaled it as I was learning my way around. Then along came today's Mira Murati furor, which happens to dovetail perfectly with the first post I put up just a few days ago after OpenAI's previous gaffe https://open.substack.com/...

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: I've always found it gross that people praise OpenAI's “noble mission” to create AGI when it's a bunch of ex-Googler's with $10M pay packages working to kill the jobs of people making 1% of what they do. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...

Nick Murphy /
@nickmurftweets: If the creative jobs weren't there in the first place, Mira, there'd be nothing for you to steal.

Abeba Birhane /
@abebab: this is too much for a company that has been built on the backbone of stolen work, largely from the creative community

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, says AI will cause some creative jobs to go away, but maybe they shouldn't have existed in the first place. OpenAI's mission is to create AGI that can replace people in every viable economic activity. Killing jobs is the end goal. [video]

Seamus Blackley /
@seamusblackley: Tell me why people hate Silicon Valley without saying the word Silicon Valley.

Rob Freund /
@robertfreundlaw: “If our new product can eliminate your career, maybe you should never have had that career” is an absolutely wild position to take. The sheer arrogance and inability to read the room.

Kevin Parry /
@kevinbparry: My wisdom is that if you're celebrating this and thinking you can finally have a creative career because you can prompt, you'll for sure be replaced by the evolving tech or someone who can type faster. Art is hard, and even harder to turn into a career. There are no shortcuts. @thayerschool: During Commencement weekend, @OpenAI CTO and Thayer alum @miramurati spoke at a special “AI Everywhere” event at Thayer, and received an honorary degree from @dartmouth. AI is getting smarter, but she predicts that smarter AI will be more helpful AND safer. https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/ ... [image]

Chris Gioran /
@chrisg@fosstodon.org: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place,” the CTO said of AI's role in the workplace. “I really believe that using it as a tool for education, [and] creativity, will expand our intelligence.” — Word soup. … @cake_of_canola_oil@threads.net: She's certainly quite smart in her chosen field. It's also pretty obvious her chosen field is not “media”. Every time she does one of these it highlights everything wrong with OpenAI, I'm surprised they keep choosing her as the messenger @darthbluesky.bsky.social: i can think of other things that maybe should not be here in the first place tbh [embedded post] @moviessilently.bsky.social: There's a scene in LITTLE CAESAR where Edward G Robinson's character sees a painting in a gilt frame. He asks how much, is told that it was $$$$$ and remarks “Boy, them gold frames sure cost plenty of dough.” — He can't understand the painting itself being valuable and he would have cleaned up in AI [embedded post]

Whet Moser /
@whet.bsky.social: “AI is going to replace work that didn't need to be done” huh? [embedded post] @evacide.bsky.social: I have known many CTOs that did not need to replaced by AI because they could have been replaced much more easily with a very short shell script. [embedded post]

Greg Pak /
@gregpak.bsky.social: Imagine the deep moral vacuity you'd have to have to use the phrase “shouldn't have” here. Like it was somehow WRONG or IMMORAL for creative people to get paid for their work. Work that OpenAI has pirated to fuel their immoral, unethical machine. Deeply, deeply repugnant worldview. [embedded post]

Micah /
@rincewind.run: they lie about how this will help and not hurt people until they feel that they don't need to do that anymore — and then we get the truth — the breathless headlines should keep that in mind next time, but they won't [embedded post] @cyanogic.com: “maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” — AI bros are not beating the allegations of hating art/artists and wanting to make the entire profession suffer [embedded post]

Brooke Binkowski /
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social: When they tell you what they are, believe them. [embedded post]

Jesse /
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social: The jobs will go away for a short while, then come back, but the people hiring will use their unsuccessful foray into AI to lower the amount paid for the creative work under the threat of pivoting back to the thing that didn't work [embedded post]

Brendel /
@brendelbored.bsky.social: Writers, artists, actors, musicians, all those things are bullshit. Being a “Chief Technology Officer”? That's real as hell dawg [embedded post] @rhymeswithnick.bsky.social: The creatives who survive this era of bullshit won't forget. [embedded post] @jann@twit.social: SO SO SO tone deaf! — #Apple, are you REALLY partnering with this company???? #OpenAI — In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” (Kate Irwin/PCMag) — https://www.pcmag.com/...

Adam Downer /
Know Your Meme: OpenAI's Mira Murati Says AI May Kill Some Jobs That 'Shouldn't Have Been Jobs In The First Place' And Draws Ire From AI's Critics

Andy Meek /
BGR: OpenAI CTO thinks AI will kill some jobs that shouldn't have existed in the first place r/singularity: OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati -AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway

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Parker Thompson /
@parkert@threads.net: The interesting AI story right now is how people are using tech to improve their work and how you could too, but these innovators remain nameless and faceless because the tech beat equivalent of “if it bleeds, it leads” is “tech is taking jobs and maybe you're next!”

Gary Myers /
@underthere.au@threads.net: “The marketing people think it looks fine,” says Nelson, “but then you hand it to someone who actually knows something about industrial fluid purification, and they're like, ‘This is word salad.’”

Todd Kelsey PhD🌻 /
Todd Kelsey PhD🌻 on LinkedIn: Excellent critically important article in The Wall Street Journal by Christopher Mims. I often encourage or require my students to get a taste …

Dan Murray /
Dan Murray on LinkedIn: This is a sobering take on AI's impact, but it does include upsides for some. (I don't agree with the freelance writer that AI-generated text is always flat and dull.) …

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic /
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on LinkedIn: “These findings echo those of more than a dozen other researchers at institutions including Harvard Business School, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Hong Kong. …

Dare Obasanjo /