Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Jacob Ward’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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to train an AI model to write stuff that sounds like JK Rowling so much so that you can in fact tell an AI model, and you can right now, hey, write me an imaginary book in the voice of JK Rowling.
They're saying that's not a remix.
That's not transformative.
That is you seeking to replace an original work in the marketplace with a cheap knockoff, right?
That is, you know, and this is the copyright office, not specifically saying you should lose in court over that,
But it comes as close to saying that as it ever has.
Now, I'd like to just sort of point out here, right, that the United States in a lot of ways has depended on fair use and on this sort of loose interpretation of owning the expression of an idea as opposed to the idea itself in some really amazing ways.
We, for instance, we invented remix culture, right?
The whole idea that you can have a song by Barry White that then gets remixed, sampled up and turned into a whole other song by Mary J. Blige.
That's an amazing thing.
That's one of the things that makes the country so fascinating, right?
And every time that somebody on Saturday Night Live impersonates a famous person or
You know, there's a famous, you know, a funny bumper sticker that riffs on something you already know.
Comment, parody, this kind of thing is enshrined in our, not just our constitution, but I think our whole sort of creative cultural character.
That is a good, good thing.
But what the copyright office is basically arguing here is we may be leaving that behind.
And it's not just the copyright office making this argument.
There was a really interesting meeting or an appearance by a guy named Matthew Prince from Cloudflare.
Cloudflare services is basically sort of like a plumbing provider to big websites.
It produces – it creates the way in which they connect to the internet in all these different ways.
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