{"id":8923,"date":"2026-08-17T08:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:28:23","slug":"day-2817-human-powered-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/podcast\/day-2817-human-powered-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2817: Human Powered AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I talked mostly about how I view trad-pub as a kind of human powered AI, rounding off the corners so their works fit into the established holes. Also marketing and why indie authors have been countering the slop since the Kindle Autumn of 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bit of a soap box there. Sorry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlowell\/55470000438\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"#tommw 64F scattered clouds. Calm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55470000438_e00757e51b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#tommw 64F scattered clouds. Calm\"\/><\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1865\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8923-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2026-08\/tommw-2026-08-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2026-08\/tommw-2026-08-17.mp3\">https:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2026-08\/tommw-2026-08-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2026-08\/tommw-2026-08-17.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/?powerpress_pinw=8923-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/durandus.org\/media\/tommw\/2026-08\/tommw-2026-08-17.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tommw-2026-08-17.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I talked mostly about how I view trad-pub as a kind of human powered AI, rounding off the corners so their works fit into the established holes. Also marketing and why indie authors have been countering the slop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/podcast\/day-2817-human-powered-ai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}