I grew up hearing that if you drop a book, you pick it up, kiss it, and put it back on a shelf. Wanton destruction of rare books in service of corporate greed is just so upsetting.
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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If it’s not being manipulated intentionally, @margotkaminski.bsky.social and I think there’s a good chance it’s not going to be speech at all under current doctrine. See our paper: papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=... But that just gives them all incentives to make sure it’s doing …
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“Unfortunately, the policymakers best-positioned to sound the alarm are ignoring the rapidly growing AI bubble because they are too distracted by Silicon Valley’s sci-fi-esque prophecies.”
The Real AI Threat is the Bubble, not the Apocalypse lpeproject.org
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