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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
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New AI field signal Development 17h ago
⚡ 6 h early
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.

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Meredith Broussard 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Shannon Mattern Eileen Clancy 🧿 Kate Knibbs Ed Newton-Rex +4
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Concern & critique

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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”

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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…”

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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…”

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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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New AI field signal Development 18h ago
⚡ 5 h early
boomers gifting AI-generated slop books

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Paris Marx Scott McGrath Kate Knibbs

“I got one of these, it wasn't built around my kids, but it was super weird. It was more of a case of my mom getting duped instead of buying something she knew was AI generated. We were able to get a refund.”

“of course @milesklee.bsky.social found lots of examples of this happening to people who aren't his colleagues but you betta believe this also happened to me 🤪 (not from my parents tho. my parents know better.) www.wired.com/story/boomer...”

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