According to a new, VC Jeremy Levin has a strange solution to the thing that regularly bothers him Wall Street Journal article On the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer “Jeremy Levin” but “Jeremy Levin” I do not consent to transcribing or recording.
This may seem small or grand depending on your perspective, but it’s clear that always-on recording is becoming ubiquitous, thanks to the growing crop of AI note-taking apps and tools. many Of Who We covered Here at TechCrunch (we also have rank Some).
VC Eric Bunn told the outlet that he now automatically assumes his meetings with founders will be recorded, even before he sees the phone slid across the conference table. One founder told the WSJ that she records most of her first dates with the Granola app, then feeds the transcripts to the cloud to see if she can be more “charming or empathetic,” while also assessing who did the most talking.
Levin calls the entire trend “socially unacceptable behavior” that can completely derail spontaneous interactions.
Others in the article say this is a legal minefield. But there’s another complication: If every meeting, watercooler conversation and romantic outing is transcribed and summarized, who’s actually reading it? At what point does this audio landfill of every conversation stop being useful and become just another recording no one has time to play?
