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Stratechery: NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on Human Expertise as the Moat Against AI and Aggregators
Ben Thompson interviews New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on her thesis that human expertise is the company's structural moat against both aggregators and AI. Levien discusses the NYT's ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity ('they stole our stuff, they used it without permission'), expanding into Games/Sports verticals, and using AI internally while fighting its unauthorized use of NYT content externally. The interview frames the broader question of whether premium human-generated content becomes more or less valuable as AI generates commodity content.
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