Zoom hack that says ‘don’t record me’

VC Jeremy Levine has a satirical solution to something that routinely bothers him, according to a new report Wall Street Journal article In the emergence of artificial intelligence transcription applications. On Zoom, it was no longer “Jeremy Levin” but “Jeremy Levin, I do not consent to the copying or recording.”

It may seem trivial or wonderful, depending on your point of view, but what is clear is that permanent recording is becoming ubiquitous, thanks to a growing array of AI-powered note-taking apps and devices. a lot to any We did Covered Here at TechCrunch (we even have… In rank some).

VC Eric Bahn told the outlet that he now automatically assumes that his meetings with founders will be recorded, even before he sees a phone slide across a conference table. One founder tells the Wall Street Journal that she records most of her first dates using the Granola app, and then sends the text to Claude afterward to see if she can be more “engaging or empathetic,” assessing who did most of the talking.

Levin calls this whole trend “socially unacceptable behavior” that can completely kill spontaneous conversations.

Others in the article note that it’s a legal minefield. But there’s another problem: If every meeting, water cooler conversation, or romantic outing is written down and summarized, who actually reads any of it? At what point does this audio dump of every conversation stop being useful and become just another recording that no one has time to play?