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Alex Kantrowitz
Personal blog · bigtechnology.combusinessai
Alex Kantrowitz writes Big Technology, a personal blog at bigtechnology.com about business and ai. Since 2022, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 63 times, most often “The Creator Economy Was Way Overblown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this Alex Kantrowitz tech newsletter as a source on AI training labour, the creator economy and a plagiarism dispute. Comments link it as background and point to his newsletter recommendations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter about big tech and society by independent journalist Alex Kantrowitz. Click to read Big Technology, by Alex Kantrowitz, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Creator Economy Was Way Overblown4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
- GPT trainer says he's traumatized from the RLHF work3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-19
- A Writer Used AI to Plagiarize Me. Now What?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13
- How Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-07
- What the Heck Is Happening at Uber?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
- Why Google Missed ChatGPT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-11
- Social Media Is Changing, and Paid Accounts Are the Response2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-03
- WhatsApp Is Booming in the U.S.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-12
- Writing Crystalized Thinking at Amazon. Is AI Muddying It?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-26
What Hacker News says?
There are plenty of paid options out there, WIRED, Popular Mechanics, MIT Tech Review. Or any of these newsletters https://www.bigtechnology.com/recommendations
Comment linking /recommendations
on “No AI Content”Submitted Can Demis Hassabis save Google? as a story · 133 points
HN discussionHere's an account of a person in Africa that helped train (wading thru gnarly explicit content in the process): https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/he-helped-train-chatgpt-it-t...
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on “Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?”Submitted The Making of Dario Amodei as a story · 54 points
HN discussionWas the article actually plagiarized? Yes, the two articles look at the same topic, the economics of the "creator economy". However, they seem to have different points of emphasis. The alleged original [1] focuses on the effects of the hollowing out of the creator economy on firms that provide services for those creators. The key quote that stood out to me was: "Trying to siphon off 5% fees from an industry where ev…
Comment linking /p/the-creator-economy-was-way-overblown
on “A Writer Used AI to Plagiarize Me. Now What?”Submitted WhatsApp Is Booming in the U.S. as a story · 41 points
HN discussion> limiting bias by RLHF rather than picking the right datasets This is the same as curation and picking out the dataset, except as post-processing. The reason why RLHF has to happen (and traumatize the people < https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/he-helped-train-chatgpt-it-t... >) is to address the problems by censoring the model.
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on “Stochastic Parrot”Submitted The Crisis at Google as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted WhatsApp Is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted As AI Takes His Readers, a Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted TikTok’s CEO Isn’t the Boss as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Must Buy Perplexity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's $20B Ticking Time Bomb as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk's Plan for AI News as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT trainer says he's traumatized from the RLHF work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spotify's Plans for AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Struggles to Support Anthropic, a Key AI Partner with a New Amazon Deal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on why he's deep in the product details as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI PR Industrial Complex as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Ghosted.” Twitter Advertisers Pull Back Spending After Laid-Off Reps Disappear as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Creator Economy Was Way Overblown as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Chatbots and Agents Are Going to Merge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI Pres. Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 "Spud", Model Moats and 'Compute Economy' as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Crystalized Thinking at Amazon. Is AI Muddying It? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody is building human-level artificial intelligence with language alone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of the Fake Podcast Invite Scam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex-Google Lawyer: Culture of Openness Degraded, and So Did the Product as a story · 2 points
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