Here's Anthropic's "Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5" www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
science.org
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back theguardian.com
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search 404media.co
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co
ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems 404media.co
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
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"If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research & validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge, & the opportunities for flawed or fabricated info. to be seen as reality will grow—all while AI pr…
"Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account." www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
"In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extre…
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- Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
- A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
- The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." www.theguardian.com/t…
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- Meta's Project OT, which would have cut some teams by up to 60% and routed their work through AI agents, was scrapped after internal results soured.
- At Meta, code changes rose 220% year over year, but shipped features only 36%, while technical and security incidents climbed 40%.
- Forrester's 2026 'Future of Work' report found 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI-related reasons.
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"AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop." But another reason is that AI companies are sitting on an unprecedented cash hoard that makes buying the whole cow cheaper than licensing the milk. www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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- ISBNdb is brokering bulk purchases of printed books published before 2022, pitching them as training data structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated slop.
- The service advertises strict NDAs on every engagement, conceding that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
- Judge William Alsup already ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying, scanning, and destroying print books was 'clearly transformative' fair use.
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"One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code." www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
But of course they are... "Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search" www.404media.co/companies-ar...
So there won't be any new posts on LinkedIn? "LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button" www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
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- LinkedIn added a 'seems like AI slop' option to the three-dot menu on posts; selecting it hides the post from the user's feed.
- Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said user flags will feed classifiers LinkedIn is 'ramping up' to detect slop and low-quality content.
- Detection service Pangram estimated 41 percent of long-form and 30 percent of short-form LinkedIn posts are likely AI-generated.
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"Because big tech doesn't do customer service..." www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...
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- ChatGPT has been directing users with routine tech complaints to email 404 Media founder Jason Koebler, often writing the pitch for them.
- Senders include a Russian man with a banned Instagram account, an Italian painter chasing Meta, and a Verizon customer wanting an investigation.
- The chatbot has produced full evidence dossiers and press releases, including one titled 'Texas entrepreneur seeks answers from OpenAI.'
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"Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content." www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
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- WIRED argues the anti-slop backlash is producing real platform changes rather than just complaint threads, with tools and policies to flag AI content spreading.
- Substack, YouTube and Pinterest have all added detection, labels or user controls, with Substack partnering with the detection firm Pangram.
- Merriam-Webster and the Macquarie Dictionary named 'slop' word of the year, and one anti-slop Facebook group has nearly 250,000 members.
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The world urgently needs binding rules for the use of AI in warfare ... yesterday was already too late. "A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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Monoculture is not healthy. Take away AI investments, and the US economy is basically treading water.
It’s 10:50 a.m. in the UK right now. Polls don’t close until 10 p.m., and people are still voting. The LLM Bluesky is using is obviously wrong to claim that Farage has won the election. @aaron.bsky.team, you all might want to take a look.
The current stance of parts of the AI industry resembles that of powerful US electric utilities that have opposed rooftop solar and net-metering policies. Some utilities have lobbied against these programs while favouring large, centralized solar projects. #monoply #oligopoly
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