Peeling Back The Onion

An email inverview with Ben Collins, Chief Executive of The Onion.

You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Does AI threaten the comedic territory of The Onion?

The only times I’ve seen A.I. being funny are when it messes up profoundly.