Why The Music Industry Is Embracing AI
Chat GPT isn’t going to top the Billboard Hot 100 any time soon, but something is happening with AI and music—something’s BEEN happening. Unlike in entertainment and journalism, big music labels and e...
30 Jun 202454min
Social Media Warning Labels, LA Kids Go Offline, and the Rise of Slop AI
Has this pod saved America…from phone addiction?! We got Jon Lovett to take a rather extreme version of the Offline challenge in Fiji, AND America’s top doctor and friend of the pod Vivek Murthy is no...
23 Jun 20241h 3min
Have Smartphones Created an Anxious Generation? with Jonathan Haidt
The kids are not alright, and the culprit is their phones. That’s the thesis of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Anxious Generation. He joins Offline to discuss why he thinks smartph...
16 Jun 202452min
How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back
Why are Republicans apologists for misinformation? How should campaigns respond to online trolls? Are Democrats still using an Obama-era digital strategy? Journalist Sasha Issenberg joins Offline to t...
9 Jun 20241h 7min
How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech
Critic Emily St. James and Crooked’s Halle Kiefer join Max to talk about “WALL-E.” The 2008 Pixar film depicts a future in which humans are so addicted to their screens that it takes a robot mutiny le...
6 Jun 202448min
Trump’s TikTok Edge and Why Birds May or May Not Be Real
Birds Aren’t Real founder, Peter McIndoe, joins to talk about the impact of the satirical conspiracy that captured the imagination of Gen Z and what he learned about the appeal of false realities afte...
2 Jun 20241h 9min
How "The Matrix" Created Modern Silicon Valley
Are we all living in The Matrix? Eh, probably not. But our tech obsessed, social media driven world is a lot closer to the reality The Matrix posed in 1999 than the Wachowskis probably ever dreamed of...
30 Mai 20241h 14min
ScarJo v. AI, the Digital Guillotine, and Why We Play Make Believe with Misinformation
Do we treat political affiliation like a religion? Which parts of our identity are based off factual belief vs. imaginary belief? This week, Max talks to Professor Neil Van Leeuwen about the differenc...
26 Mai 20241h 10min
