Jacob Ward
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1,814 appearances
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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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The Don Lemon Show · Jacob Ward's Warning | Will A.I. Be The Death of Human Creativity · 19 Mar 2025
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The Arab Spring was taking place and people there were organizing against authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, all through the Middle East, using Facebook.
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You had the new iPhone, the 4S had just come out.
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You had Netflix was giving up on its DVD service, the mailing of physical DVDs.
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So if you think back to that time, that was a very optimistic time about sort of the role of the internet.
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And yet you had this federal judge sort of saying, you know, this goes too far.
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It covers stuff that we haven't even really thought about yet.
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And so he just wasn't sure that he was ready to kind of
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hand the world to Google was kind of how he felt about this.
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And he sensed, I think on some level that this would have, you know, really, I don't know.
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He, I think he, he saw in that last sentence that something was being gathered up much, much more power being gathered up than just a, you know, a bunch of digital pages of books.
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You know, I think he, and for me, I think that like,
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he was, he may not have realized it, but he was seeing ahead to the collapse of the creative industries to, you know, the end of fair payment for creative work to, uh, you know, the, the absorption and regurgitation of our best ideas from artificial intelligence.
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He didn't see all that stuff, of course, but I think he sensed that something was possible here that he didn't, that he wasn't on board with.
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Unfortunately,
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It didn't go any further.
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Basically, the plaintiffs combined their suits into one suit, they went to court, and eventually Judge Denny Chin kind of changed his mind.
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He seems to have been won over by Google's argument that because they were only going to be putting excerpts of the book online, it was okay under fair use law.
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And it satisfied all of these sort of checklist items when it comes to thinking about copyright.
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It was a transformative use of the work.
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It wasn't a full just reproduction of the same books.
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