FIR #494: Is News’s Future Error-Riddled AI-Generated Podcasts, or “Information Stewards”?
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FIR #494: Is News’s Future Error-Riddled AI-Generated Podcasts, or “Information Stewards”?
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In the long-form episode for December 2025, Neville and Shel explore the future of news from two perspectives, including The Washington Post's ill-advised launch of a personalized, AI-generated podcast that failed to meet the newsroom's standards for accuracy, and the shift from journalists to "information stewards" as news sources. Also in this episode:
- WPP founder Sir Martin Sorrell argued that PR is dead and advertising rules all.
- Is AI about to empty Madison Avenue
- Should communicators do anything about AI slop?
- No, you can't tell when something was written by AI
- In Dan York's tech report: Mastodon's founder steps back, and new leadership takes over; the UN reaffirms a model of Internet governance that involves everyone: and Dan talks about what he'll be watching in 2026, including decentralized social media, agentic AI, and Internet technologies.
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