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Multiple readings The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 10d ago
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humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

10 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler sorelle Sam Cole +2

“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...”

“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Compute & infrastructure Development 1d ago
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Chestnut Grove data center community fight

The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“An endangered American Chestnut grove is under threat from a proposed data center. West Virginia governor wants to simply move the trees, says they will die anyway. Good stuff: www.404media.co/west-virgini...”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“After this backlash, Nscale is saying they've never planned to "bulldoze" the trees, as viral social media posts claimed. But they and the governor's office do plan to move them, which experts say will almost definitely kill them within a few years. www.404…”

Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“In addition to being overwhelmingly unpopular with the communities where they’re built, and despite the trillions of dollars dumped into their development, data center projects and the industry at large around the world are starting to flounder.”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Policy & governance Development 9d ago
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AI video sways judge court ruling

Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl 404 Media Joseph Cox Sam Cole Social Media Lab Dr J. Rosenbaum

“A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. www.404media.co/her-ai-gener...”

“We spoke to the family that made the AI avatar of a killed man. They said the point of the video was to sway the judge. “Isn’t that what you want human connection to be?” The convicted man in the case is now being resentenced because of the use of the AI vi…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy

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4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler Sam Cole alanau.bsky.social

“"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.”

“A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...”

3 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Jason Koebler: A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." …
Jason Koebler: "Historically, matching decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task, on the scale of years for any moderately-sized game with a number of active contributors" Now, "anyone with…
Jason Koebler: I am seeing a lot more of this kind of thing lately. Is fundamentally the same thing as the AI Adobe clone stuff and I think the near-term impacts are that these human-focused mod communities get b…
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
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