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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI
Description: Today I’m talking to Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic. I was really excited to talk to Nick. Like so many media CEOs, including Vox Media’s, he just signed a deal allowing OpenAI to use The Atlantic’s vast archives as training data, but he also has a rich background in tech. Before he was the CEO of The Atlantic, Nick was the editor-in-chief of Wired, where he set his sights on AI reporting well before anyone else.I was also really interested in asking Nick about the general sense that the AI...