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e. So could it be that so many people kind of took that to heart that the rate of MeToo went way down? Maybe. Or was it never real and it was always a sort of a news-related thing? Well let me say it a different way. Maybe the rate of MeToo has always been the same, but when it was in the news, the people who were the victims of the MeToo were far more likely to pursue it. But once it falls out o…
← Previous segment →. If I ask AI what's on page whatever of my book, it can't do it. So it's not trained that well. If I ask it to summarize my book, it can do it, but it takes a summary from other people's comments about the book. So it is legal for the AI to look at public comments like a review of the book or what somebody said about it on social media for example and usually that's enough to piece together what the book was about. So in a sense, AI, at least in my case, finds a workaround that doesn't look like a copyright violation to me because there's no problem quoting a reviewer or something.
So I asked Gemini today if it was true that John Bogle, who is the famous Vanguard index fund guy, is it true that he once used my financial advice in his book? Because I was wondering who I have influence on and according to Gemini it could tell me the page number and the book and I think it was year 2010 that his book took my nine-page personal finance advice and he just included it in the book because he thought it was so well done. It was really well done. And that was I
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think mostly right, but when it could give me the page number, I'll bet that was a hallucination. So I don't know. I've not confirmed that his book included my financial advice. I can confirm that a few people asked for permission to reprint that. So whether he did or not, I don't know. Anyway, did you know that I've had an influence on personal finance? How many of you knew that? That's one of t…
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