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Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?
Against all odds, the deluge might be good for creators
“Astounding triumphs”, from stopping climate change to founding space colonies, will be made possible by artificial intelligence, Sam Altman has written. The head of OpenAI is not the only tech boss with high hopes. AI is the “defining technology of our time”, believes Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s boss. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta has argued that AI will enable the discovery of “things that aren’t imaginable today”.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Sloponomics”
From the October 18th 2025 edition
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