The Who's Who of AI

““It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...”

“This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.”

“ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.””

“New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI…”

““This isn’t something that had really been studied before—how much AI content people are actually seeing,” Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, told me in a phone interview. “AI content is a tax on readers’ time.” Read now: www.404media.co/linkedin-and...”

“As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually show…”

“"behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership...As a natural result, OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriat…”

“What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Ap…”