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

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…”

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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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 2d ago
⚡ 2 h early
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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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
⚡ 5 h early

Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’

6 directory members surfaced this signal.

6 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole Emanuel Maiberg

“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.””

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