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Reaction converging Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic Concern & critique · 9 attributable reactions Reaction converging ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Development 9d ago
⚡ 5 h early
OpenAI Project Lily chat review program

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

17 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sam Cole
“this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...” evidence ↗
17 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 404 Media Chris Brockett Anil Dash Joseph Cox Damien Williams Sarah T Roberts, PhD Luke Stark +9

“this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...”

“Make real how much labour is stolen and hidden with it too.”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Sam Cole: this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404 Media: this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Eileen Clancy 🧿: @mbarany.com I am absolutely certain this doesn't happen for maths prompts. Right? Yeah? 🙃
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Models & releases Development 15d ago
⚡ 1 h early
Anthropic AI misuse September report

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

18 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 8 attributable expert contributions · Hypervisible , Jason Koebler, Tim Kellogg
“Report here. www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...” evidence ↗
18 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Michiel Bakker Hypervisible Jason Koebler Tim Kellogg Andrew Arruda John Burn-Murdoch Eileen Clancy 🧿 Antony Slumbers +10
How the network is reacting 7 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

Concern & critique

7 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Report here. www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Thomson Reuters announced it is moving off Claude to Alibaba's Qwen to cut costs. From today's Anthropic report: Alibaba extracted 151M+ Claude exchanges to help train Qwen. TR now deploys Westlaw on a vast trove of stolen US IP. @AnthropicAI's report: http…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@kotekjedi_ml Here Ant's report https://t.co/22vHruWVqH And the paper from @kotekjedi_ml @DavidSchmotz @iliaishacked https://t.co/wuCpNZaQ0d”

Primary source anthropic.com ↗
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.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · 404 Media, Joseph Cox, tante
“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…” evidence ↗
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 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.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sarah T Roberts, PhD
“It bears mentioning that Microsoft just shut down its Microsoft Research Social Media Collective…because why should they care about the social consequences of their products, right? Including worker harms.” evidence ↗
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

“It bears mentioning that Microsoft just shut down its Microsoft Research Social Media Collective…because why should they care about the social consequences of their products, right? Including worker harms.”

“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…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Accelerating AI field signal Signal 5h ago

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

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Joseph Cox, Jason Koebler
“New from 404 Media: a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras. Flock doesn't do face rec, but that doesn't stop other companies doing it. "This is the way the world is going, the way the world will have to be…” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler
Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 15d ago
⚡ 4 h early
AI existential risk YouTube video

So... Is AI Going to Kill Us All???

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“Is AI going to kill us all in 10 years? Discussions of AI doom or existential risk are complicated because they often serve as marketing or excuses for regulatory capture for the biggest AI companies. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch more: …” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler Emanuel Maiberg

“Is AI going to kill us all in 10 years? Discussions of AI doom or existential risk are complicated because they often serve as marketing or excuses for regulatory capture for the biggest AI companies. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch more: …”

“emanuel and i attempted to talk about how we talk about and report on AI. we included this in our subscriber NL this week it's an informal convo we had bc we've been slacking about how and if to cover the Anthropic stuff, as well as changing capabilities of…”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Jason Koebler: emanuel and i attempted to talk about how we talk about and report on AI. we included this in our subscriber NL this week it's an informal convo we had bc we've been slacking about how and if to co…
Emanuel Maiberg: emanuel and i attempted to talk about how we talk about and report on AI. we included this in our subscriber NL this week it's an informal convo we had bc we've been slacking about how and if to co…
Jason Koebler: not because i think AI necessarily is scary or sentient or bc i believe everything in here, but ai companies now have the social media content moderation problem of the last decade: a billion peopl…
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