Booktalking - The book Meta can't face, billionaire brainworms, fact-checking and fair use

02/04/2025 46 min Temporada 9 Episodio 4
Booktalking - The book Meta can't face, billionaire brainworms, fact-checking and fair use

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In our latest installment in this series, hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj caught up on a book whose author they're not going to get to interview. Topics covered in this episode: Meta's problem with an ex-employee's tell-all memoir The cognitive perils of being a billionaire The publishing perils of nonfiction Moving fast and breaking things as sage wisdom from the elders of Silicon Valley LibGen and the fight in the courts over Faire Use in AI models Books mentioned: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - A Memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg