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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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AI companies buy old books

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

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“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…”

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Emanuel Maiberg: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Meredith Broussard: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Neil Turkewitz: How do you spell TRAGEDY?
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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McSweeney's AI economics satire

AI Economics for Dummies

14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...”

“McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies”

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In washington dc refik anadol projects ai art on smithsonian castle

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“DC "is awash in these bldg projections — once a fugitive form of punk protest, now a preferred mode for institutional speech... While the latest trend started with an eye-popping project by artist Doug Aitken in 2012,... the messages have migrated... to pro…”