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What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.
One card per development. Sources are clustered; expert reactions remain attributable.
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11 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
“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…”
12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
“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 …”
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“"When a company chooses to opt you into an AI feature, they are making decisions with real-world consequences," @thiccreese.bsky.social writes. If a company "opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled w even more deepfakes becomes more…”
““If a company automatically opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled with even more deepfakes becomes more possible. And that's a reality I’d love to opt out of.” My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/please...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
““The AI economy is a trillion-dollar ouroboros of buying & selling, investment & equity staking, all happening between San Francisco & San Jose. Big Tech is advancing money to AI start-ups to buy cloud services from Big Tech, which is using the revenue to r…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“Sound advice for anyone considering signing an AI deal. “Technical safeguards-/input filters, output filters, vocal classifiers—are only as good as the consequences for failure… When an AI company presents you with a ‘licensing agreement,’ read it like a li…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“This essay is, in my view, too generous/forgiving with regards to AI use given that AI models are rooted in misappropriation & exploiting, but I agree wholeheartedly with this 👇🏽”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“Indeed, the loss is infinite. It breaks us. “Eliminating humanity is not the only way to wipe out our humanity.””
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
““An artist’s creative endeavour is their work and their property. No company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist’s control. That includes the artist’s control of the price & value of their work. Anything l…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.