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Oral Tradition in the Age of AI: Why We Can't Lose Our Own Words Apr 7 6 min

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Oral Tradition in the Age of AI: Why We Can't Lose Our Own Words

For 200,000 years, humans didn't write anything down. Knowledge lived in story, in song, in conversation. What happens when we lose the act of retelling—and why does it matter for AI too?