AI is killing the internet

人工智能正在扼杀互联网

Today, Explained

2025-07-31

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In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors. It's part of a larger fight that is remaking the internet. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Rebeca Ibarra, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Vox's Future Perfect is funded in part by the BEMC Foundation, whose major funder was also an early investor in Anthropic; they don’t have any editorial input into our content. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Noted fan of the internet Al Gore with his boss at the time, President Bill Clinton. (Photo by Sharon Farmer/White House/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Artificial intelligence is scraping the internet.

  • It's gorging all the websites to give you what you want.

  • It's actually kind of gorging everything to give you what you want.

  • And the makers of everything are not very happy about it.

  • Sarah Silverman is suing.

  • Sony is suing.

  • Dow Jones is suing.

  • The New York Times is suing.

  • Authors are suing.

  • But in one author lawsuit, AI kinda won.

  • Specifically, Anthropix AI who goes by Claude?

  • Well Claude's not cool, but Claude's uncool the same way I'm uncool, see, so...

  • Claude's win in court is scaring the makers of everything and we're going to talk about why on Today Explained.

  • Is AI coming for your job?

  • Short answer?

  • Maybe.

  • This week on Net Worth and Chill, I'm sitting down with Lucy Guo,

  • the co-founder of Scale AI,

  • founder of Passes and the youngest self-made billionaire woman in America.

  • Lucy has become one of tech's youngest female founders to hit it big.