It feels like the author believes that selling data to advertisers is going to go away.
Another question raised is what the automation era business model looks like? Will it default to subscription fees or will it monetize the decisions themselves?
Why wouldn't the AI engines doing the summary for you also just inject ads? It's simple and it's a known quantity. In the middle of hearing the summary for the 5 episodes of the show his wife watched he will get pitched a targeted commercial.