263. Dominic Young. AI is here. Are we ready?
Dominic Young
April 27, 2023
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In today’s podcast Dominic Young, long-time newspaper strategist and founder of Axate, discusses how our collective experiences with the digital disruption in the past can be used to inform how to approach regulating generative AI going forward.
Topics include:
Why we shouldn’t be rushing legislation or regulation around generative AI.
Why today is a good time to reexamine how copyright works on the internet.
Why inefficiency … is good for creativity.
Dominic Young is a long-time newspaper executive in the UK who has been involved in many industry discussions, initiatives, lobbying and sometimes arguments and fights revolving around rights. What people can do with our stuff, what we can do with our own content, what the law does or should say about all this and the interactions between the old media world and the ever-evolving digital environment. Now an entrepreneur focused on business models for digital media, he has a long perspective on the intersection between law, policy, and the real world.
Axate is a full-stack monetization service for digital publishers. It includes ‘pay-as-you-go' access (whereby readers purchase access by article or day pass), subscriptions, voluntary contributions, and newsletter subscriptions.
With Axate, you can offer multiple payment options to widen your paying audience, reduce churn and drive user-centric product innovation. Insightful reader data and analytics enable you to test and optimize and find the best fit revenue model for you and your readers. You maintain full control over your pricing, your content, your product, and your business model. There are no upfront costs, and we use a risk-free revenue share model.
As part of our service, Axate offers publishing consultancy from a team with decades of experience in the news industry. We understand the hurdles faced by publishers working in a competitive environment and have unparalleled experience of the process of pivoting publishing business models and building audience revenue. We will work with you on a 90-day plan to ensure a successful roll-out, as well as providing ongoing strategic and tactical advice to help you hit your audience and revenue targets.
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