Classical Stuff You Should Know is nothing like the yawn-inducing required classes you took in college. Unlike your stuffy college professor, the hosts of this podcast walk us through some of history’s most foundational writings and events — from Plato’s dialogues to the War of the Roses — with humor and wit.

Even in a history podcast, you can’t escape ChatGPT: In “The Pomposity of ChatGPT”, the hosts leap from the past into the future by considering how, among other things, culture could potentially be “stuck” with the advent of AI. As the creation of new media by bots relies mostly on pre-existing datasets the issue of innovation, and its possible end, is examined. By extending this same concern to writing, the hosts explore how the way we create anything, from emails to academic writing, will be limited by existing data sets and algorithms. One important question, then, is: How do writers find a voice and style amidst these constraints?

WHERE TO GET IT-You can listen to the episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon’s Audible.

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