The Zoom hack that says, 'Don't record me'
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it? Zoom hack that says, 'Don't record me' VC Jeremy Levine has a wry solution to something that routinely annoys him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer "Jeremy Levine" but instead "Jeremy Levine I do not consent to transcribing or recording.
Key Takeaways
- " It may sound petty or brilliant, depending on your point of view, but what's clear is that always-on recording is becoming ubiquitous, thanks to a growing crop of AI note-taking apps and devices, many of which we've covered here at TechCrunch (we've even ranked some).
VC Eric Bahn tells the outlet he now automatically assumes his meetings with founders will be recorded, even before he sees a phone slide across a conference table.
- ) Levine calls the whole trend "socially unacceptable behavior" that can completely kill spontaneous conversations.
- But there's another wrinkle: if every meeting, watercooler conversation, and romantic outing gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
At what point does this audio landfill of every conversation stop being useful and just become another recording no one has time to play back?
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- One founder tells the WSJ she records most of her first dates with the Granola app, then feeds the transcript to Claude afterward to see if she could be more "engaging or empathetic," while also assessing who did most of the talking.
" It may sound petty or brilliant, depending on your point of view, but what's clear is that always-on recording is becoming ubiquitous, thanks to a growing crop of AI note-taking apps and devices, many of which we've covered here at TechCrunch (we've even ranked some). VC Eric Bahn tells the outlet he now automatically assumes his meetings with founders will be recorded, even before he sees a phone slide across a conference table. One founder tells the WSJ she records most of her first dates with the Granola app, then feeds the transcript to Claude afterward to see if she could be more "engaging or empathetic," while also assessing who did most of the talking.
But there's another wrinkle: if every meeting, watercooler conversation, and romantic outing gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it? At what point does this audio landfill of every conversation stop being useful and just become another recording no one has time to play back?
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