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Multiple readings These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions +2 more reaction maps further down
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Accelerating Culture, work & education Signal 7h ago
⚡ 4 h early

These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Emily M. Bender 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Baldur Bjarnason
Primary source 404media.co ↗
Accelerating AI field signal Signal 6h ago

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler
Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Amazon acquires rare books AI training

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Luke Stark Jason Koebler Andrew Selbst James Grimmelmann Emanuel Maiberg Damon Beres +6
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"We’re not revealing the titles of the books included in the shipment we tracked, but they are rare, meaning there are not many copies of them in circulation." I'm highly curious what the books are. I think it matters a lot, both legally and morally. www.40…”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Luke Stark: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Yeah, the industry itself destroys *immense* volumes of books that don't sell.
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
⚡ 2 h early
humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

9 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard 404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler sorelle Sam Cole Kat Tenbarge +1

“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404m…”

“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Models & releases Development 1d ago
⚡ 4 h early

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane 404 Media Joseph Cox Damien Williams Jason Koebler tante Michael Zimmer Karla Ortiz +3
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

4 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“The court filing dug up by @jason_kint is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life https://t.co/HDBfIT2kWO”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Culture, work & education Development 2d ago
⚡ 3 h early
OpenAI AI trainers fired using AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

8 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna 404 Media Joanna Bryson Carissa Véliz Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Karen Gregory Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

“OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. www.404media.co/people-train...”

“At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Alex Hanna: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: Yum!
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Development 2d ago
⚡ 5 h early
Meta Muse AI calls backed by humans

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler evacide Sam Cole Eileen Clancy 🧿 Rosamunde Van Brakel

“In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media has learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...”

“New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
⚡ 5 h early

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler
3 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Jason Koebler: it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compellin…
Jason Koebler: this is an excerpt of a 10 minute video in which multiple songs were played
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: The faces here are incredible
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Models & releases Analysis 6d ago
⚡ 6 h early
OpenAI AI killing internet video

OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Neil Turkewitz

“The statements, taken together, are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they worked, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI3...”

Primary source youtube.com ↗