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No Baby in a Backpack Yet - DTNS 4631
Season 10, Ep. 4631
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Artificial wombs. What are they and what role will they play in health care? Plus Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, has created a tool called Nightshade that lets creators fight back by “poisoning” their works to prevent LLM models from training on it without permission. And is POSSE, Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere, the solution to decentralizing the social media space.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Annalee Newitz, Roger Chang, Joe.
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