Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
Hosted by Ben and Max and Maxwell Tani and Ben Smith and Liz Hoffman · Semafor Podcasts
4.4from 355 ratings
- 123
- Episodes
- 109
- Transcribed
- 355
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
Every Friday media reporter Max Tani and Semafor Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith pull back the curtain on the most important stories about media, revealing why you see and hear what you see and hear. Mixed Signals from Semafor Media is supported by Think with Google.
- Publisher
- Semafor Podcasts
- Category
- business · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
109 of 123 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Pangram CEO Max Spero on why human touch is about to become the scarcest thing on the internet
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Salman Rushdie on what he's learned about media after a lifetime of being trapped by it
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jessica Tarlov on being the lone Democrat at Fox, what she knows about Pete Hegseth, and why she defends her conservative colleagues
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Pangram CEO Max Spero on why human touch is about to become the scarcest thing on the internet
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it kind of makes my eyes glaze over. Yeah, that's such a subtle, interesting thing. That's so interesting. Why does it do that? You've paid a lot of attention to... the hallmarks of AI writing. Why does it use some of those tropes or cliches? When you train a language model, you start by doing next token prediction. So you're going to say, given the last N words, what is the next word? And so I think these models, these were like GPT-2 and GPT-3. I think these models actually didn't have these tells. They had maybe a little bit of mode collapse, but they could mimic human writing pretty well. […]
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- Max Spero
- Salman Rushdie
- Jessica Tarlov
- Taylor Lorenz
- Rachel Karten
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 234 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 121 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts Mixed Signals from Semafor Media?
Ben and Max and Maxwell Tani and Ben Smith and Liz Hoffman host the show. Published by Semafor Podcasts.
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