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Multiple readings ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Reaction converging Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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New AI field signal Analysis 19h ago
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reverse engineer AI wild west essay

‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Scott McGrath By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“An excellent article by 404 Media's Jason Koebler runs down some of these hacks, including drop-in replacements for smart TV software that blocks the endless ads and surveillance that have made TVs all but unusable: www.404media.co/reverse-engi...”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“What this promises is a way to easily clone and modify other people’s products. One of the main problems? AI-powered, cloned software often has bugs that the person using the AI doesn’t understand or know how to fix, but they're unleashing into the world an…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Compute & infrastructure Development 1d ago
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Chestnut Grove data center community fight

The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“An endangered American Chestnut grove is under threat from a proposed data center. West Virginia governor wants to simply move the trees, says they will die anyway. Good stuff: www.404media.co/west-virgini...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“After this backlash, Nscale is saying they've never planned to "bulldoze" the trees, as viral social media posts claimed. But they and the governor's office do plan to move them, which experts say will almost definitely kill them within a few years. www.404…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“In addition to being overwhelmingly unpopular with the communities where they’re built, and despite the trillions of dollars dumped into their development, data center projects and the industry at large around the world are starting to flounder.”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
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Character.ai bankruptcy documents reveal

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Shannon Vallor 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Alexander Howard Social Media Lab Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 +1
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

3 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows the economics of AI don't work: www.404media.co/character-a…”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshi…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
SwiftOnSecurity: GenZ has no money to goon
Dr J. Rosenbaum: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
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Accenture cuts Claude monthly spend limit

Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Sung Kim Eileen Clancy 🧿 Karen Gregory

“If an employee goes over the allocated $29 workers have to find a specific project or team (called a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS at Accenture) to fund the rest of the usage. www.404media.co/accenture-te...”

“New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404me…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
e.w. niedermeyer: seems like poor leadership, perhaps they could hire some kind of business consultancy to help provide a more consistent management structure
404 Media: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
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Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
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AI tool police homes interior photo

AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Black Aziz Anansi
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Probably nothing to worry about for homeowners unless there are a bunch of other devices taking images in your home and making that data available for sale. Good thing no one would do that.”

Context & explanation

1 expert

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“In other words, from a single photo, Raven appears to be able to quickly find the specific home it was taken in, without using location data or other metadata attached to the image. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...”

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Established Models & releases Development 6d ago
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ChatGPT ad targeting prompts investigation

How ChatGPT Targets Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 Social Media Lab

“So ChatGPT lets basically anyone target ads to people simply based on email, phone number, or unique phone identifier. @josephcox.bsky.social tried it and successfully ran an ad about how humans are reading your ChatGPT prompts in like 5 minutes. Read more:…”

“Here is my beautiful ad I pushed into peoples' ChatGPT sessions, telling them that ChatGPT is not private, and human contractors are hired to read real users' ChatGPT prompts. I targeted the ad to people asking ChatGPT about privacy, AI, whether chats are p…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 3d ago
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LLM robot prison roleplay debate

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Meredith Martin

“The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." www.404media.co/someone-tort...”

“People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Jason Koebler: i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
Jason Koebler: for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also t…
404 Media: i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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police AI child photos predator sting

Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler

“Christopher Thomas Mertens, a high school maintenance worker, was arrested after attempting to meet up with an AI persona that he thought was a 15 year old boy.”

“Cops used AI images to pose as a kid to lure out a suspected child predator. Was done by a unit called the Livonia Undercover Resistance to Exploitation Unit, or LURE. www.404media.co/undercover-c...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Joseph Cox: Cops used AI images to pose as a kid to lure out a suspected child predator. Was done by a unit called the Livonia Undercover Resistance to Exploitation Unit, or LURE. www.404media.co/undercover-c...
Sam Cole: yeah, we name a few other examples in the story too. it's wild that this one is just the latest
Sam Cole: I remember when that happened thinking it was so sci-fi 💀
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Primary source 404media.co ↗