Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-06-20
Books mentioned on Part One: AI Is Coming for Your Children
Robert sits down with Ben Bowlin to talk about the flood of AI-generated children's books con-artists are putting on Kindle. Not only are they off-putting and bad, they might represent a serious threat to literacy itself.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“you mentioned Ulysses earlier Ulysses triggered such a awesome conversation in U.S courts right over the nature of obscenity right”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Terminator 2
“no no this isn't just me stealing the plot of Terminator too in order to like hype up the power of the the product my company's making”
Passing The Old Man and the Sea
“You're talking about like I don't know old man in the sea style [ __ ] or something like that”
Passing The Old Man and the Sea
“You're talking about like I don't know old man in the sea style [ __ ] or something like that”
Passing The Lorax
“for example I want to teach children about the importance of conservation with a cautionary tale about the thoughtless capitalization of Natural Resources right that's the lorax”
Passing Stellaluna
“or one of my favorite books as a kid you know I want to write a book about a bat raised by birds that kind of shows kids that bats are beautiful and complex creatures and not just spooky set dressings for vampire stories that's Stellaluna”
Passing Ulysses
“you know people said that when James Joyce put out Ulysses this is the end of literature”