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Behind the Bastards

Part One: AI Is Coming for Your Children

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

History, News, Society & Culture

4.417K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Ben Bowlin to talk about the flood of AI-generated children's books con-artists are putting on Kindle. Not only are they off-putting and bad, they might represent a serious threat to literacy itself.

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0:00.0

Ah, welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast that is, it's a podcast, you know,

0:08.7

what do you want?

0:09.7

That's honesty and advertising.

0:11.7

Can't argue with that.

0:13.2

It is a podcast.

0:15.9

I'm Robert Evans, your host, and I didn't think of a funny introduction for this episode.

0:22.8

So pretend I shouted atonally or screamed out the name of a dead dictator and let's welcome

0:29.2

our guest for the episode bin bolin.

0:33.0

I'm Ben if you could scream a dictator's name, that would be most appreciated.

0:37.6

Yeah, one of the hard to pronounce ones.

0:39.7

Yeah, go for it.

0:40.7

Oh, okay.

0:41.7

Wow, that's definitely, oh, there's so many good ones though.

0:47.3

Okay, Matt mood, I'm a jajad.

0:49.3

Oh, I've met a jajad.

0:50.3

I'm a Dina jajad, I think.

0:51.3

I've met Dina jajad, you're right.

0:52.7

There you go.

0:53.7

See, this is why you're the host, Robert.

0:55.5

Yeah.

0:56.5

Yeah, I mean, that's an interesting one, right?

0:57.7

I mean, I don't know how you, yeah, characterize exactly what he was, but he's become a darling

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