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This Week in Startups · 2025-09-16 · 70 min · 14,300 words

Why Medium is HIDING from AI | E2179

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We are not going to make any change unless an AI company comes to the table with money. Right. Like I didn't Wanna do this not in a way that wasn't transparent to our community. And um, but now that it's out, we can literally start having these conversations. And the conversations kind of don't make sense until you have a number, right? Are we saying we're going to pay every story one penny? No one's gonna care, right? Yeah. Is it five dollars? Well, some people are going to start to care. Is it the best stories that show up in AI results over and over again? Are they going to make a hundred, a thousand dollars? No, that that's going to catch people's attention. And so

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