If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?
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2:20 PM PDT · July 17, 2026
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VC Jeremy Levine has a wry solution to something that routinely annoys him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer “Jeremy Levine” but instead “Jeremy Levine I do not consent to transcribing or recording.”
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