🎙️ AI isn’t just reshaping what's real, it’s warping how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the world. On this episode, we dig into how AI is being used to extract, deceive, and disempower under the guise of innovation. From scraping private data to fabricating reality at scale, the system isn’t broken, it’s running exactly as intended. But alternatives exist. We're talking mutualisation, public co-ownership, and building an internet, society and media landscape that works for people, not platforms.

00:00 - AI, Reality & the End of Trust

00:53 - Is the world ending?

07:51 - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

13:46 - Support Independent Media!

17:17 - Hot Chivers prediction of the year

19:40 - Monopoly & Regulation

27:45 - What do we do?

33:32 - Wikeepeedeea

39:30 - Are you going to be able to believe real things?

43:55 - Who Owns The UK Media?

53:45 - The Media Democracy Festival

55:19 - Say his name (Chivers)

Check out...

✒️ Impress & Ofcom – safeguarding the highest standards of news & regulating communication services

📰 The Independent Media Association (IMA) – democratising news & supporting independent media

💪 We Own It – campaigning against privatisation and for public ownership

📄 Media Reform Coalition Report: Who Owns the UK Media? (credit mrc if you use their stats!)

📩 Catch the full breakdown (and even more links) in this week’s newsletter (on Substack) from the News Club crew (Chivers, it's Chivers).