390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.

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Links:

• Barack Fucking Obama on Decoder.
• Matthew Panzarino on Decoder.
• Sports Illustrated’s phony AI writers.
• Horace Dediu back in 2011: “The Cook Doctrine”.
• Searching YouTube for “LG vs. GE refrigerators”.
• Nilay’s Pulitzer-nominated investigation into how many wiper blades are on the Tesla Cybertruck.
• Doug DeMuro’s car-review YouTube channel.
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC.
• Steve Jobs on how most professional managers are bozos.
• Nilay’s AI-written article: “Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine”.
• Amanda Chicago Lewis’s crackerjack feature story at The Verge on SEO “experts”: “The People Who Ruined the Internet”.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.