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Kate Knibbs

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Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude Send me tips: [email protected] / Signal: kateknibbs.09
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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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of course @milesklee.bsky.social found lots of examples of this happening to people who aren't his colleagues but you betta believe this also happened to me 🤪 (not from my parents tho. my parents know better.) www.wired.com/story/boomer...

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books wired.com
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  • Researchers documented more than 517 nonfiction children's books on Amazon as partially or fully AI-generated, per reporting summarized by Indicator.
  • Amazon removed 198 flagged titles after researchers shared the list, with many books mimicking trusted series like 'Little People, Big Dreams' and 'Who Was?'.
  • Author Cory Doctorow called the books 'garbage' that 'exist to suck up money from the inattentive' and rip off readers and writers.
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shopping question for a runner who hates earbuds: are there any good sunglasses that have built in headphones but not a camera/AI?

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