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Multiple readings Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 15d ago
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AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ali Alkhatib
“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 404 Media Chris Brockett Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Ali Alkhatib Pavel By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…”

“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Ali Alkhatib: this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhe…
Ali Alkhatib: this is sort of a fundamental problem with pangram IMHO. if you restrict yourself from thinking critically about the author(s) as such and only look at syntax, you paint yourself very narrowly into…
Hypervisible : Even if it’s “good” by some metric, I don’t want to read it because it has no perspective or viewpoint.
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Developing AI field signal Development 2d ago
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Suno AI music scraping revealed hack

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Eryk Salvaggio, Neil Turkewitz
“Interesting to see exactly where Suno's training data came from.” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl 404 Media Eryk Salvaggio Joseph Cox Jason Koebler dell cameron Marielza Ben Winters +2
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Multiple readings

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Interesting to see exactly where Suno's training data came from.”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...”

2 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Jason Koebler: Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, …
Jason Koebler: Suno also scraped episodes from roughly 420,000 different podcasts, which was at least ~1 million hours of audio. They had code that specifically sought acapella versions of songs on YouTube for vo…
Jason Koebler: Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to
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New AI field signal Development 6h ago
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AI companies buy old books

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Emanuel Maiberg, Neil Turkewitz
“companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-co…” evidence ↗
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Meredith Broussard 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Shannon Mattern Eileen Clancy 🧿 Kate Knibbs Ed Newton-Rex +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“It is ill-gotten gains being used to exploit legal loopholes and subsume culture, all protected from public criticism by NDAs. This should not be legal, and it is a travesty that it is going unpunished. www.404media.co/ai-companies... /end”

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“companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-co…”

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“this ai ripoff, which again has no link, then goes to the top of hackernews, which used to drive a considerable number of readers to us. our site is essentially banned from hackernews bc the mods are obsessively pro silicon valley even though the userbase i…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Meredith Broussard: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Neil Turkewitz: How do you spell TRAGEDY?
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Established AI field signal Development 9d ago
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AI spam floods LinkedIn X platforms

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jason Koebler
“As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually show…” evidence ↗
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Mar Hicks Meredith Broussard 404 Media Jason Koebler VE, cybersocial occult investigator

“As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually show…”

““This isn’t something that had really been studied before—how much AI content people are actually seeing,” Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, told me in a phone interview. “AI content is a tax on readers’ time.” Read now: www.404media.co/linkedin-and...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Jason Koebler: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Meredith Broussard: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Jason Koebler: As LinkedIn says it's trying to change this, I scroll two seconds and get an AI-generated advertisement by a LinkedIn exec promoting AI. Good stuff
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