Jacob Ward

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1,814 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Jul 2025

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The Don Lemon Show · Jacob Ward's Warning | Will A.I. Be The Death of Human Creativity · 19 Mar 2025 podcast

It was an excerpt and searchable in this new way. voice-verified

It was useful to researchers. voice-verified

That's another test for that kind of stuff. voice-verified

And it wouldn't necessarily, as they saw it, damage the market value of the books because you would still need to buy the physical book to read, you know, or the Kindle version to read the whole thing. voice-verified

So he dismissed the whole thing. voice-verified

The suit then went to appeal. voice-verified

They lost there too. voice-verified

And today you can search a portion of more than 40 million books in 500 languages thanks to Google Books. voice-verified

Here's why I'm driving you through all this. voice-verified

And thank you for bearing with me. voice-verified

Because now that we sort of have that, I just want to point out that I consider this kind of the ultimate missed train in the history of modern technology. voice-verified

Because it really was this brief moment of forward-looking wisdom. voice-verified

And now, fast forward to the moment we're in. voice-verified

So last week, Sam Altman posted a piece of fiction on X that he says was written by a new open AI model that was trained in creative writing. voice-verified

And here's how he described it. voice-verified

He said, quote, this is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI. voice-verified

It got the vibe of metafiction so right. voice-verified

Now, whether the billionaire head of the company can be trusted to critique his own product's writing, I don't think that really matters. voice-verified

I don't know that I even believe it matters whether the writing is any good. voice-verified

What I think matters is that we are now in the world that Judge Denny Chin briefly glimpsed and then said, don't worry about it. voice-verified

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