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Jason Koebler

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Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]
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will have an article about ai agents some point next week but where i'm at rn is we are seeing AI get access to accounts/systems/the internet en masse. as directed by humans, that is gonna cause big problems anthropic threat report yesterday was interesting: www.anthropic.com/…

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic anthropic.com
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OpenAI is paying real people to read live ChatGPT prompts and responses, often containing very sensitive information, in part to determine if the AI is being too sycophantic or weird: https://t.co/q0OZEzRVMR

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
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  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
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“The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
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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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“We must be very nice to the AI” is not a fringe view. the people making this stuff are a fucked up cult www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah read an advance copy of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical and proposed pulling the company out of the May 25 launch.
  • The sticking point was the 40,000-word Magnifica Humanitas rejecting machine consciousness; after private lobbying, the final text did not move.
  • Since fall 2025, Anthropic has flown religious scholars from six traditions to its offices under NDAs to discuss whether Claude might be conscious.
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Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: https://t.co/WXSo0zB6JF

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified 404media.co
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  • Human contractors grading Microsoft Copilot image edits report being flooded with upskirt photos, sexualized edits of real women, and pro-anorexia content.
  • Reviewers see a user's original prompt, the uploaded photo, and two AI-generated edits, then pick the better one on gut feel.
  • Microsoft cites its terms of use for reusing customer data; Prolific, identified as one hiring firm, did not respond to 404 Media.
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it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

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google has injected its gemini AI bullshit into our google docs and i just highlighted an article i wrote and told it to "refine" to see what it would do and it deleted the entire thing

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i see arguments like this sometimes and ... what's the thing. what is this "everyday annoying task" that an AI could actually do and that you could trust it to not totally fuck up? i cannot imagine the things. and tech/robots have made a lot of tasks more efficient but there's always more shit

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extremely lucky to still make a living writing on the internet. we have many supporters/subscribers and i'm mostly an optimistic person. then i see something like this and i want to scream forever into a pillow. AI account ripping off our reporting about AI ripping off authors, goes viral, no link

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our ai will let hackers steal your account, but also, on the other hand, we are using it to make useless slop

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very sad that the MAGA skateboard shop near me that used AI posters to market its stuff is going out of business. who could have predicted this

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the Google Cloud AI baseball commercial is excellent because it’s about how you can use AI to make completely useless inferences about random things and ascribe false meaning to them

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have reached the point where >50% of my email inbox is ai spam

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email subject: STORY TIP email content: the dumbest ai drivel you've ever seen in your life

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