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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

“I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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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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Meredith Broussard 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Shannon Mattern Eileen Clancy 🧿 Kate Knibbs Emanuel Maiberg +3

“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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