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Shashir Mehrotra

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
694 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

We ended up with an experience that was pretty suboptimal for the user and obviously suboptimal to the expert.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I think the fundamental reason is something you said last week, that it's really hard to distill what you would do as an editor based off the outcome of your published work.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I just think it's really hard for AI to do that, and we need your engagement for that to be a good feature.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

So I think they launched something that wasn't particularly good.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I think doing that and learning from it is part of the process, but that's what they thought they were doing.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

So I think it's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation and so on.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I think that as an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

And I think the idea that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

You want to refer to other people's content.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

You want people to link to you.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

You really, really hope they attribute you when they do.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

So I think the idea of when somebody uses your content, should they attribute you?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Of course.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

And to attribute you, you have to use your name.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I think there's a different line, which is, should people be able to impersonate you?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

And I think that is a very different standard.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

And, you know, we saw the lawsuit, you know, respectfully, we believe the

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

The claims are without merit.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

I think the idea that the feature was impersonation is quite a big stretch.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

The feature was very much a, every mention was very clearly, this is inspired not only by this person, inspired by a specific work from this specific person with a clear attributed link to get back to them.