Lots to talk about — life after the Adobe deal went away, of course, but much more interestingly there’s a lot going on with the web, design, and AI, and Figma’s right in the middle of it. We’ll see you there! (And check out the rest of the Vox Media Podcast Stage schedule, it’ll be a party.)
On this special episode of Decoder, Complexly co-founder and YouTuber Hank Green turns the tables on Nilay Patel.
Max Read on the Google Gemini silliness:
I think we need to acknowledge that it is, objectively, extremely funny that Google created an A.I. so woke and so stupid that it drew pictures of diverse Nazis, and even funnier that the woke A.I.’s black pope drove a bunch of MBAs who call themselves “accelerationists” so insane they expressed concern about releasing A.I. models too quickly.
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NetChoice’s Clement brings up the idea that the government can regulate content on broadcast radio and television because wireless spectrum is a scarce public resource — an idea that came out of Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC in 1969. There’s no similar rationale that allows the government to regulate speech on the internet, and Red Lion hasn’t been reconsidered. (I recently talked about Red Lion with Barack Obama on Decoder — he told me that government needed to find a new hook to enforce content moderation rules.)
The head of the fast-growing streaming service discusses the Funimation merger and shutdown and where he sees growth in anime.
