David Pearce

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14,403 appearances 52 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Aug

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 52 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.

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The Vergecast · Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

That's really interesting. voice-verified

So you don't think this is sheer sort of corporate responsibility, these companies trying to be good guys? voice-verified

You're like they they want they want you to be tricked and then have your mind blown by the fact that you've been tricked. voice-verified

Tell you right now. voice-verified

No. voice-verified

So, first of all, shout out to our commenters who immediately found this uh this great video from a couple of years ago that links to a University of Maryland paper from a couple of years ago digging into this idea. voice-verified

So the idea, as I understand it, is n watermark is actually sort of the wrong term. voice-verified

Um Watermark connotes that there is some thing invisibly embedded in the text, like a special character or some kind of voice-verified

underlying metadata that says this is generated with AI. voice-verified

This is not that, to the best of my understanding. voice-verified

What this is, is basically if if you think of uh an AI system as next word prediction, which a lot of people don't like to, but it is fundamentally what's going on. voice-verified

It looks a bunch of words and says, what's the next one? voice-verified

It is essentially going to voice-verified

Up and down rank certain answers to what the next word might be. voice-verified

And the way that they talk about this in this paper is you have a red grit list and a green list. voice-verified

So like Neil I went to the There are a bunch of words that could come after that, right? voice-verified

So like store. voice-verified

football game and then there's a bunch that it would never be like voice-verified

I don't know. voice-verified

Taylor Swift concert. voice-verified

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