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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 ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
⚡ 2 h early
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 ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
⚡ 4 h early
AI classroom youth harm essay

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark Steph Wright Mél Hogan / The Data Fix tante Benjamin Riley +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI business Development 20d ago
⚡ 3 h early
AI R-rated film studio launches

This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
““Despite an overall backlash against AI in Hollywood, one-third of consumers now feel indifferent toward the use of AI in production across all areas, except when it comes to writing & acting.” Despite? This stat reveals that 2/3 of consumers don’t “feel in…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Neil Turkewitz

““Despite an overall backlash against AI in Hollywood, one-third of consumers now feel indifferent toward the use of AI in production across all areas, except when it comes to writing & acting.” Despite? This stat reveals that 2/3 of consumers don’t “feel in…”

Primary source wired.com ↗