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Reaction converging Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
⚡ 4 h early
ChatGPT AI flyer pandemic essay

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard 404 Media Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Sam Cole James Grimmelmann tante Clive Thompson

““It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...”

“This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.”

5 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Jason Koebler: ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
Jason Koebler: good on you! i see soooo many of them now
Jason Koebler: sadly and perveresly i wanna see these but i see so many fewer presentations these days
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
⚡ 2 h early

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Sam Cole Emanuel Maiberg Jeff Sharlet
Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Vision & synthetic media Development 4d ago
⚡ 4 h early
NY governor race AI deepfake video

The Republican Nominee for New York Governor Made a Creepy, AI-Generated Video of Mamdani and Hochul

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler Sam Cole

“The video makes Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul look like they're hanging out in a prescription medication commercial.”

“I love living in a time when a candidate for governor of my state is making fake viagra commercials to smear his political opponents www.404media.co/bruce-blakem...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Sam Cole: I love living in a time when a candidate for governor of my state is making fake viagra commercials to smear his political opponents www.404media.co/bruce-blakem...
Sam Cole: AI is not capable of producing content that isn't sexually tense
Sam Cole: it kind of is
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
⚡ 4 h early

The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Sam Cole

“In her new audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy, Bridget Jones and Michael Amato unpack how real people are using chatbots to seek connection, in an era when tech companies are constantly trying to exploit our innermost worlds.”

“ICYMI: @bridgettodd.bsky.social and I got DEEP into it on the pod this week. "Do you want your most intimate human connections being mediated by an unreliable gaslighter? And that's what we have in these tech companies." Listen and watch: www.404media.co/br…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Policy & governance Analysis 4d ago
NO FAKES Act threatens satire EFF warns

The NO FAKES Act Could Silence Satire, Commentary, And News

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Sam Cole

“for politicians, the first amendment protects use of their likenesses for things like commentary, satire, journalistic purposes, etc. but commercial use gets less protections. legislation like the NO FAKES Act is relevant here re: AI, but I'd defer to: www.…”

Primary source eff.org ↗