The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

AI will slash, burn the journalism field

... and who you should support in the great reshuffling.

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Aug 03, 2025
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Let’s start with a thought experiment: If you gave the leading AI models every single song from 1990s hip hop, would it be able to eventually invent 2000s hip hop?

I’ve been thinking more and more about artificial intelligence lately, especially because the world around me seems increasingly filled with AI-generated piles of word-slop and fake video.

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