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From this story: www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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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thenextweb.com/news/ai-advi...

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found thenextweb.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • In a Milano-Bicocca-led study, participant accuracy on film trivia fell from 27% to 9% when they had access to AI advice.
  • Willingness to say 'I don't know' collapsed from 44% to 3%, while stated confidence rose from 30% to 76%.
  • Wharton researchers earlier this year coined 'cognitive surrender' for users accepting wrong AI answers about 80% of the time.
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All the better for corruption, my dear www.axios.com/2026/08/04/w...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

"They are arguably the modern-day railroad,” Schulte said. “It makes sense for them to issue longer maturities because AI is a long-term infrastructure." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... I'm v sympathetic to long-term infra development, but what if hyperscale AI is as flying…

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com

A small fine is a start, but saving the web and our information environment requires more ambitious approaches. We have the means, with the DMA as it exists, to be far more strategic in shaping a livable technological future. One such strategy, that also helps a lot for AI, is…

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Recent commentary

look you can prompt an LLM to not hallucinate and it will still hallucinate but it will hallucinate less and I *still* maintain that part of the whole shitstorm around "this" is marketing allowing people to continue to believe LLMs have the accuracy of "computers" when they really don't & can't

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I think a reasonable position on the OpenAI huggingface thing is: * executing untrusted code is a bad idea * sandboxes frequently aren't, even with the best intentions * novel combinations of untrusted code are being generated at scale and being executed * consequences probably bad

View on Bluesky · ♥ 88 ↻ 13 ↩ 3 · 7d ago

is ai disclosure policy the new land acknowledgement policy

View on Bluesky · ♥ 26 ↻ 2 ↩ 5 · 14d ago

OK I just got to get this off my chest AI -- IN PARTICULAR CHATBOTS -- are useful RIGHT NOW for non-spreadsheeters in that they are actually (not always, but more often than not) helping time-poor people navigate bureaucracy receive eg benefits they deserve. That's a real plus -- not a lie.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 16 ↻ 0 ↩ 2 · 17d ago

Hm. "Generative AI allows anyone who wants to to be promoted beyond their level of competence"

View on Bluesky · ♥ 8 ↻ 2 ↩ 3 · 10d ago

unfortunately following meta's horizon metaverse initiative the company was unable to see whether their agent-based layoff plans to become ai-native would have legs

View on Bluesky · ♥ 13 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 12d ago

why not talk to an LLM when you don't have the energy to make up a guy to be mad at

View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 21d ago

yes but what if the latest openai model actually persuaded the openai people to relax controls during development hmmmm (sorry)

View on Bluesky · ♥ 9 ↻ 1 ↩ 2 · 3d ago

Purdue Pharma and Sackler family-style settlement but for AI

View on Bluesky · ♥ 11 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 11d ago

I guess people have already considered the theory that Anthropic and OpenAI are throwing megawatts of power and tokens at financially engineering their success *and* also letting agents loose at doing so

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