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Multiple readings We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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Amazon acquires rare books AI training

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg
“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Luke Stark Jason Koebler Andrew Selbst James Grimmelmann Emanuel Maiberg Damon Beres +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"We’re not revealing the titles of the books included in the shipment we tracked, but they are rare, meaning there are not many copies of them in circulation." I'm highly curious what the books are. I think it matters a lot, both legally and morally. www.40…”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Luke Stark: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Yeah, the industry itself destroys *immense* volumes of books that don't sell.
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
⚡ 6 h early
essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗
11 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:”

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Primary source buttondown.com ↗
Developing Models & releases Analysis 1d ago
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AGI illusion language models essay

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought

5 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark

“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”

5 experts discussed this · 58 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: I find that, no matter how many ways I acknowledge LLMs etc are changing, people dismiss me as “crazy” or “unserious” because I refuse to attribute those changes to “intelligence.” I will say again…
Eryk Salvaggio: I understand that one functions as the other, but LLMs work by printing a path through a process that arrives at a completion point by tightening the tension between word salad and a legible destin…
Eryk Salvaggio: If you want to argue that this is some narrow specific *form* of intelligence, fine, but don’t scope-creep. A capacity for language production doesn’t automatically infer human-bound interpretation…
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Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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open letter AI academia adoption

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Luke Stark Joshua Grochow
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”

2 experts discussed this · 19 posts
Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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Primary source openletter.earth ↗
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4 experts · 19 posts · 5d ago
Anil Dash Luke Stark Karl Bode Mary Branscombe
Matches Building & implementation
“Data center buildouts most frequently prey on small towns that are desperate due to being hollowed out by the collapse of manufacturing or other industry, and they were *already* betrayed by big bu…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Anil Dash: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
Luke Stark: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
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