AI Hype, Broken Products, Dead Media: The Real Tech Crisis. Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina and Georg Zoeller in the new episode of the CDI podcast

Our podcast episode on the AI hype, broken tech products, dead media and civil society is out. It's a dense and realistic look at what is really going on with the society. We talk about: 

- Why Google Search is getting worse and digital products are declining in quality.

- How Meta makes 10% of its revenue from scammers — and why it has no incentive to change. 

- How tech companies convinced governments that AI will fix the problems created by 200 years of capitalism - and why it's lies. 

- How tech became the new church: Silicon Valley offering the only narrative of the future to governments that don’t understand what’s happening. 

- Why X has become “propaganda as a service,” with people in Southeast Asia encouraged to post toxic comments. 

- Why more than 50% of U.S. investment now goes into AI, while everything else is deprioritized. 

- Why we still don’t have guardrails for social media companies. 

- Why media is effectively dead — its business model was incompatible with capitalism and incentives were misaligned. 

- The invisible tax from tech companies: most businesses depend on digital advertising and can’t survive without it, draining money from the economy.

- Why “the future is digital” is a colonial model — value flows to the U.S. tech giants while everyone else is left dependent.

- How Georg raises his son and why he encourages him to play old video games.

Must-watch for everyone who wants to stay relevant in the increasingly digitized age. You'll probably want to watch it a few times.

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