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TechCrunch covers a workaround people are using to opt out of automatic AI meeting recording, then asks the better question: if every meeting, hallway conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's reading any of it. The framing of ambient transcription as generating volume nobody consumes is a useful counterweight to the assumption that more captured context automatically improves agent output. More context is not more signal, and my own retrieval quality problems say the same thing. (TechCrunch)
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