People vs Algorithms · Aug 14, 2026 · 1:01:49
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Suno makes real songs harder to tell from fake. Launch videos are coming across as fake — and the engagement is fake. Drawing the line between creative tool and robot authorship is fuzzy. We debate people’s right to know what AI made and the role of regulation. Plus: Bobby Fingers as AI antidote, Meta’s open source push, the Great GDP Debate, media’s exit from the attention economy, and the brand problem Democrats face from Woke 1.
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Chapters:
* 00:00 Open
* 00:31 Welcome
* 04:38 Field Notes Update
* 06:16 Anthropic Watermarking
* 09:40 Provenance Problem
* 22:42 Meta Back in AI
* 35:28 NVIDIA Compute Futures
* 37:17 Media Survival Playbook
* 40:19 Bobby Fingers Craft Era
* 47:27 GDP Beyond the Numbers
* 50:52 Woke 1.0 Aftermath
* 01:01:00 Credits
Episodes: People vs Algorithms