The AI Metagame: Episode 05 with Nate Silver and Raf Michalowski

In this episode of The AI Metagame, host Brandon Adams sits down with famed forecaster Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) and digital media builder Raf Michalowski to talk about AI slop and where the content industry is headed.

At its peak, Raf's pipeline was uploading around 60,000 videos a day to YouTube — roughly 3% of all daily uploads on the platform. He walks through the economics, how platforms end up incentivizing this kind of volume, and what happens when they eventually crack down.

Nate works in the part of media where AI doesn't really help — forecasting, accountability, and predictions that can be graded. The conversation maps where human judgment still has a moat, and whether quality can survive when the marginal cost of content is zero.