The Who's Who of AI

“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

“Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...”

“The lawsuits have made clear that Suno did train on huge amounts of copyrighted works, but the hacked data shared with 404 Media sheds more light on how Suno scraped songs from the internet and where it took them from. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Rea…”

“The more attenuated one’s relationship is to a particular domain, the more likely they are to believe that AI might be useful in that domain. I wrote a short piece about one time I referenced AI’s potential as a research assistant, & how @emilymbender.bsky.…”

“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…”

“I think you’ll like this essay by @atomless.bsky.social “Predictive systems only simulate coherence, without, in fact, recognising the user as a subject at all; they do not truly respond to intention or meaning, only to statistical correlation.” 👀 @irisvanr…”