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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 The System From Nowhere Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Development 2d 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.

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 Signal 19d ago

Day in the life of the fight against exploitative ai f3d8fea73fcc

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Neil Turkewitz

“There’s an understandable inclination to think that AI might be useful in some contexts, just not the one that you are involved in, or know anything about. I fear it happens to everyone. It happened to me, until corrected by @emilymbender.bsky.social I wrot…”

4 experts discussed this · 51 posts
Olivia Guest: Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things…
Iris van Rooij: Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things…
Olivia Guest: SE is not science, for one. And two, I think it's also really important to understand that arguments against AI do not hinge off factive utility. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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Primary source medium.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
⚡ 49 h early

Ai dictation app wispr

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD Anna Mills Neil Turkewitz

““Because writing, when it comes down to it, is a higher form of thinking. Writing takes time and editing and a deep level of commitment. Writing is a rigorous process to understand your own thoughts and then lay those thoughts out in a way that convinces or…”

“Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not understanding why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? https://t.co/gxvSVnUQeS”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Anna Mills: Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not sure why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? www.nytimes.co…
John Warner: Dictation as a method for "writing" is, in and of itself, a skill that most of us don't have because we don't practice it. Instead, our speech to text sounds like...speech, which is not good fodder…
John Warner: Richard Powers at least for a time used voice to text to dictate his novels, but this took practice and a very specific kind of mind/talent to do. People could get good at dictating text for the pu…
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 4d ago
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system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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