Jonathan Woahn is a co-founder of Cashmere, a platform designed to help publishers safely and responsibly monetize their content in AI-powered applications. He believes human-created content is what connects us and advances shared knowledge, and that creators and publishers need clear incentives to continue producing it. His work focuses on building systems that preserve compensation, credit, and control over how content is used, while enabling AI to responsibly incorporate high-quality, human-generated material at scale.
Today’s guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.