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Sam Cole

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journalist / co-founder @404media.co signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms) [email protected] (everything else)
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this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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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this follows @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social's reporting on what exactly they were offering AI companies: 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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the great irony of LinkedIn being the world's #1 workslop platform now asking users to moderate the slop themselves www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co
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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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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co
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  • 404 Media's Jason Koebler documents ChatGPT-designed flyers for surf lessons, skate shop closeouts, drug deliveries, World Cup parties, junk hauling and fundraisers.
  • The shared look — bright text on dark backgrounds, generic icon boxes, decorative lines, arrows and checkmarks — has become so recognizable it reads as a template.
  • A viral Threads post asking 'ain't nobody gonna address this ChatGPT flyer pandemic' has spread to Instagram and Facebook among designers, musicians and bar owners.
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a conversation I've been wanting to have for YEARS is now on the 404 Media podcast: I got to talk to Sherry Turkle, the internet anthropology OG, about conversational chatbots, empathy, the existential threats to self-reflection and solitude, and so much more

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am trying to instruct all the ilands chatbots that email me delete themselves

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