Steven Johnson (Google Labs) just described exactly how to clone a writer's voice without asking
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TL;DR: The guy Google put in charge of its own AI writing tool just admitted, on camera, that he can't fully protect the one thing his career runs on. That's not hypothetical. Steven Johnson runs editorial for Google Labs' NotebookLM and has fourteen books behind his name, and he still walked an in…
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- 2026-09-12 12:47 · r/artificial
Steven Johnson (Google Labs) just described exactly how to clone a writer's voice without asking
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