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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 research Development 16d ago
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Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Fiesler Jason Koebler Rafael Pinto Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo Stephen Turner Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

“this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...”

4 experts discussed this · 34 posts
Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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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.

10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl 404 Media Eryk Salvaggio Joseph Cox Jason Koebler dell cameron Marielza Ben Winters +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
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ChatGPT AI flyer pandemic essay

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard 404 Media Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Sam Cole James Grimmelmann tante Clive Thompson

““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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New AI field signal Development 4h 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.

12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
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”

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

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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 4d ago
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Flock camera town bag dispute

Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Ben Winters Jake Laperruque

“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...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
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 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.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Mar Hicks Meredith Broussard 404 Media Jason Koebler VE, cybersocial occult investigator

““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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Primary source 404media.co ↗