The distributed local services that have at their forefront some sorts of LLM chatbots that are discussed as one solution to journalism, that sounds bad. I don’t want my newspapers to have some chatbot that shoves itself in my face like every apartment complex’s website or car dealership and stuff.

Mike talking about the news as a community-building business is something that’s always bugged me when he’s brought it up. Communities can be easy to attract but easy to lose. My issue is that journalists and news outlets need to deliver hard truths. Do they deliver those hard truths to their community even if it means risking the community falling apart, or do they stick to telling the community easy information? There needs to be a way for that news to be there for people to find it, even if people don’t like what that news says.