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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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Ai slop books biography amazon

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Sarah T Roberts, PhD, Woodrow Hartzog
““As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

Google ai open web

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Data & Society
“As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...” evidence ↗
9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Data & Society Taylor Lorenz Kashmir Hill Christopher Mims kate conger nilay patel Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Dare Obasanjo +1
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI research Resource 12d ago
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IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3
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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago

New york times

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Kashmir Hill
“Update on NYT v. OpenAI. NYT asked judge to sanction OpenAI for not turning over training data sets and ChatGPT outputs that have been requested in discovery: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t... OpenAI has previously expressed privacy concerns around NYT reques…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Kashmir Hill

“Update on NYT v. OpenAI. NYT asked judge to sanction OpenAI for not turning over training data sets and ChatGPT outputs that have been requested in discovery: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t... OpenAI has previously expressed privacy concerns around NYT reques…”

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Established Models & releases Signal 19d ago

New york times openai

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Kashmir Hill
“Update on NYT v. OpenAI. NYT asked judge to sanction OpenAI for not turning over training data sets and ChatGPT outputs that have been requested in discovery: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t... OpenAI has previously expressed privacy concerns around NYT reques…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Kashmir Hill

“Update on NYT v. OpenAI. NYT asked judge to sanction OpenAI for not turning over training data sets and ChatGPT outputs that have been requested in discovery: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t... OpenAI has previously expressed privacy concerns around NYT reques…”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗