TNW 374: AI's First Major Copyright Loss - AI Reliance, AI Chatbots, Google
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's an AI-filled episode of Tech News Weekly! Is AI making us think less critically than before? Are AI chatbots accurately summarizing news? A BBC study finds that they are not. Google plans to use machine learning to estimate a user's age. Thomson Reuters wins the first major AI copyright case within the US.
- Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week! Amanda talks about a study on how over-reliance on AI tools can lead to diminished critical thinking skills.
- Mikah shares a BBC study that looked into AI chatbots and how they performed poorly at summarizing news, with over half of the summarizations containing glaring errors.
- Emma Roth of The Verge joins the show to discuss Google utilizing machine learning to estimate users' ages based off their browsing history and YouTube activity.
- And Mikah talks about Thomson Reuters winning the first big US AI copyright case.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guest: Emma Roth
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Silberling is here, and we kick off the show by talking about AI, making us think less critically. |
| 0:10.0 | Does it or doesn't it? |
| 0:11.3 | Then we talk about a BBC study about AI chatbots, not doing a very good job at summarizing the news. |
| 0:19.2 | Afterwards, Emma Roth of the Verge stops by to give us an |
| 0:22.5 | understanding of what Google's doing with machine learning and age verification before we round |
| 0:27.8 | things out with a story about Thompson Reuters winning in the first U.S. major copyright case |
| 0:35.0 | against AI. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:42.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:43.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:46.4 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:50.0 | This is Tech News Weekly with Amanda Silverling and me, Micah Sargent, episode 374, recorded Thursday, February 13th, 2025. |
| 1:00.0 | AI's first major copyright loss. |
| 1:04.2 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:10.8 | I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent, and it is now the second, yes, yes, second Thursday of |
| 1:18.9 | the month, which means we are joined by the awesome, the cool, the amazing. Amanda Silberling, |
| 1:27.2 | welcome back, Amanda. |
| 1:28.3 | Hello, I feel like I just need you to follow me around whenever I walk into a room and then have someone be like, the amazing, the cool. |
| 1:35.3 | Yes, I will gladly do that. |
| 1:38.3 | I love a sort of royal, regal opening announcement before the person walks in. We can say all of your |
| 1:47.2 | titles and epitaphs and all that kind of thing. So, okay, as many of you who tune in regularly |
| 1:55.4 | know, the way that this works is we take the time to share some stories of the week. |
| 2:03.5 | So that means that we will be chatting this week first about Amanda's story. |
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