AI Content and the War for Your Attention
What happens when AI starts generating content for everyone—and no one wants to watch it?
In this episode, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and ad tech veteran Antonio García Martínez join a16z General Partner, Erik Torenberg to unpack the shifting economics of attention: from the rise of “AI slop” and spammy feeds to the difference between what we want to pay attention to and what platforms push on us.
They explore:
How AI changes what gets created and what gets seen
Why internet ads still mostly suck
The return of group chats—and the slow death of mass culture
Based on Chris’s new book The Sirens Call…
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