I sit down with Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best for a wide-ranging conversation about AI slop, what it does to the public square, and how writers can use powerful tools without outsourcing their judgment.
We discuss Pangram's finding that roughly 40% of long-form writing on LinkedIn was fully AI-generated, why low-intent automation behaves like a denial-of-service attack on online communities, and what Substack is doing to add transparency without policing creators' tools.
The conversation also covers thin versus thick wrappers around AI, proof of work, Claude-fishing, the future of video, and why human attention may be the last truly scarce resource.
Chris Best: https://cb.substack.com
Nate Jones: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com
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