Within the months because the cancellation of The Downside With Jon Stewart on Apple TV Plus, the previous host of the present, Jon Stewart, has revealed particulars right here and there in regards to the acrimonious relationship with Apple. Whereas interviewing FTC Chair Lina Khan yesterday on The Day by day Present about tech firms and antitrust habits, he revealed extra, telling Khan, “I wished to have you ever on a podcast,” however Apple “actually stated, ‘Please don’t speak to her.’”
The entire episode is price a watch whenever you get an opportunity. The episode’s first phase included Stewart lampooning the hyperbolic guarantees tech firms incessantly make about AI, interspersed with clips of tech execs discussing AI’s potential for changing human labor or explaining AI-enabled layoffs. Then, he settled down for his interview with Khan — close to the tip, his former employer got here up.
“I didn’t suppose they cared for you is what occurred,” Stewart stated. “They wouldn’t allow us to do even that dumb factor we simply did within the first act on AI. What’s that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out within the public sphere?”
“I believe it simply reveals the hazard of what occurs whenever you focus a lot energy and a lot decision-making in a small variety of firms,” Khan replied.
Stewart and Apple went their separate methods after simply two seasons of his present, with early reviews citing “inventive variations.” In February, Stewart stated throughout a CBS Mornings interview that Apple canceled the present partly due to his plans to cowl matters like AI and China.
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