Do We Have a Right to Know What's Real? | MTS #18
Gather ‘round, kids! It’s time for the latest episode of the “Two Uncs, One Podcast” podcast!
AKA: Monitoring the Situation with yours truly and Kale Zelden.
In THIS episode, we talk about a whole bunch of random stuff, just like we always do!
More specifically, from the episode description:
Kale returns from Oxford, Steve is buying physical books again, and the conversation moves from bookstores, Norman Rockwell, and lived-experience writing into Anthropic’s AI watermarking news and the panic over detectable machine prose.
The real question is bigger than watermarking: do we have a right to know what is real?
Steve and Kale talk through authorship, ghostwriting, AI-assisted art, fake wisdom, social media capture, frictionless convenience, *WALL-E*, gig work, tech fatigue, deepfakes, and why writing feels different when the machine starts speaking in your voice.
Do We Have a Right to Know What’s Real? | MTS #18
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