New
AI field signal
Development
5h ago
⚡ 6 h early
AI companies buy old books
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
12 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
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”
Research & technical analysis
2 experts
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“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…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
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…”
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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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Developing
AI field signal
Development
2d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Suno AI music scraping revealed hack
10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
10 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Research & technical analysis
2 experts
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Interesting to see exactly where Suno's training data came from.”
Policy & governance
1 expert
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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Established
AI field signal
Development
4d ago
⚡ 7 h early
Flock camera town bag dispute
6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
6 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“After they decided not to continue their Flock contract, emails that 404 Media obtained show how this town in Wisconsin struggled to get their Flock cameras physically removed. www.404media.co/flock-object...”
“"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great." www.404media.co/flock-object...”
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Jason Koebler: New: Public records show how a city that ended its Flock contract spent months trying to get the company to remove the cameras or turn off the cameras. They were told Flock "objects" to the city re…
David Marx: set a hard deadline and then fine them daily for each day and camera afterwards.
404 Media: New: Public records show how a city that ended its Flock contract spent months trying to get the company to remove the cameras or turn off the cameras. They were told Flock "objects" to the city re…
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Established
AI field signal
Development
15d ago
⚡ 3 h early
AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper
7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
7 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”
“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…”
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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Established
AI field signal
Analysis
16d ago
⚡ 4 h early
ChatGPT AI flyer pandemic essay
8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
8 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
““It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...”
“This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.”
5 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Jason Koebler: 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...
Jason Koebler: good on you! i see soooo many of them now
Jason Koebler: sadly and perveresly i wanna see these but i see so many fewer presentations these days
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Established
AI field signal
Development
17d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Companies throttle employee AI spending
7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
7 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““Crazy, we go from no more [AI] leaderboard to actual usage limits in two weeks,” one Amazon employee said in a reply on Slack. www.404media.co/companies-ar...”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
““Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…””
Claude chats exposed Google indexing
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
4 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.”
“Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI c…”
Developing
AI field signal
Signal
1d ago
⚡ 5 h early
6 directory members surfaced this signal.
6 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Feels like the past week has been a big moment for Substackers realizing that they don't control the platform and it can make decisions that go against their interests at any time, for any reason www.404media.co/substackers-...”
““I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.””
AI used to make anti-data center slop
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
5 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“We are in the making AI slop against AI data centers hellscape grift now. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”
“People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Roland Meyer: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: This is relevant I think olivia.science/entryism/
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Established
AI field signal
Analysis
15d ago
⚡ 2 h early
AI makes game cloning easier
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
6 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.”
“Someone had a cool idea for a game (Tetris but the whole board rotates) and posted a proof of concept to social media. Immediately someone ripped it off and vibe coded it www.404media.co/ai-made-clon...”
Established
AI field signal
Development
9d ago
⚡ 2 h early
AI spam floods LinkedIn X platforms
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
5 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
““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...”
“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…”
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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AI errors in official court transcript
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
4 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter than it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.”
“fucking OOPS www.404media.co/judge-caught...”
Meta patents emotion tracking device
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
4 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“Many LLMs have already scanned the entire internet and are still hungry for more. Meta’s patented system would give it unprecedented access to the movements, moods, and interactions of its users. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @mjgault.bsky.social story:…”
“Meta has patented an AI device that tracks your emotions and watches you take your meds.”
New
AI field signal
Signal
14h ago
⚡ 7 h early
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“this TikTok account was a truly insane example. but it doesn't even feel surprising now. I mean of course someone is going to get footage of random people, run facial recognition on them, and then unmask them for clout. it's basically normal now, it sucks w…”
Developing
AI field signal
Signal
1d ago
⚡ 8 h early
3 directory members surfaced this signal.
3 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.”
“Apple's iMessage scanning flagged a video of my friend's dog laying on her back as nudity; blurred it www.404media.co/apples-imess...”
Developing
AI field signal
Development
2d ago
⚡ 6 h early
Spotify AI slop community tracking
3 directory members surfaced this signal.
3 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.”
“New: Spotify's AI problem has got so bad that random people are stepping in to track all the slop. There are now multiple sites/leaderboards that people can use to identify “AI artists hiding on Spotify. No bands, no studios, no soul, just machines and melo…”
Established
AI field signal
Development
15d ago
⚡ 6 h early
ChatGPT worst user flyers collection
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
3 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Welcome to the AI-generated poster hall of shame.”
“Thank you everyone who sent me horrible AI generated flyers from around the world at my request. I was fully overwhelmed with hundreds and hundreds of these. These are the worst I saw. The hall of shame. Please enjoy and/or numb your brain: www.404media.co/…”
Established
AI field signal
Development
6d ago
⚡ 5 h early
Meta NameTag face recognition glasses controversy
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“As celebs like Kylie Jenner promote Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Lorde made it known at her concert: "Fuck the glasses." 404 Media has reported on how its been used by ICE officers, by people filming secretly at massage parlors and how some have hacked the recordi…”
“ty for reminding me to get MADDER www.404media.co/whats-the-di...”
