Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deus vs. Machina
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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In this week’s episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- The Boring Internet (Terry Godier)
- Orkney Library & Archive (Bluesky)
- Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope (Politico)
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah’s remarks on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica humanitas” (Anthropic)
- Vance calls Pope Leo’s AI warnings ‘profound’ (NBC News)
- American heresy: should Peter Thiel be burned at the stake? (Le Grand Continent)
- Spotify chief defends AI-generated music (Financial Times)
- OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections (Axios)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- In a surprise, Meta increases funding to the Oversight Board (Platformer)
- Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.
Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, content moderation, oversight board, trust and safety
Companies: anthropic, meta, openai, spotify
