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Faster Than Permission: When AI Training Breaks Norms

Podcast: Clown Cast · Joey Musselman

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

Norms work through reputation and feedback loops. But AI training datasets operate at billion-page scale, copying faster than any community norm can propagate. This episode traces the mechanical failure: when the thing doing the copying moves faster than the norm itself can even travel. From Common Crawl to licensing markets, the engineering problem nobody's solved. 00:00:00 - Three episodes, one question 00:01:36 - Two billion pages in a single month 00:03:09 - Industrial agriculture and the pattern 00:04:45 - Copying that cannot interact with norms 00:06:23 - The cost of scale: one and a half billion dollars 00:07:56 - Commons enclosed, seeds patented 00:09:38 - When norms...