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Multiple readings We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Openai agents hijacked german website previously undisclosed ai breakout this Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Is AI Profitable Yet? Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Amazon acquires rare books AI training

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Luke Stark Jason Koebler Andrew Selbst James Grimmelmann Emanuel Maiberg Damon Beres +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"We’re not revealing the titles of the books included in the shipment we tracked, but they are rare, meaning there are not many copies of them in circulation." I'm highly curious what the books are. I think it matters a lot, both legally and morally. www.40…”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Luke Stark: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Yeah, the industry itself destroys *immense* volumes of books that don't sell.
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Agents & robotics Signal 3d ago

Openai agents hijacked german website previously undisclosed ai breakout this

9 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Tim Kellogg Scott McGrath Eileen Clancy 🧿 Alejandra Caraballo Vincent Conitzer Alex Turner Veni Kunche +1
2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Casey Newton: We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown…
Casey Newton: It's a good thing that this is all just marketing hype from the labs and that the agents are simply acting according to a distribution of statistical probabilities. Otherwise this would be scary!
Casey Newton: Kevin and I are starting a new show! Will reveal all on the final Hard Fork
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Primary source reuters.com ↗
Established AI business Analysis 10d ago
⚡ 375 h early
Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

12 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest Damien Williams Sasha Costanza-Chock Prof. Dr Beth Singler Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Roland Meyer Stephen Turner +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

Primary source isaiprofitable.com ↗
Established Policy & governance Development 15d ago
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prompt injection hidden in legal filing

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler Veni Kunche

“These “prompt injections” told the hypothetical LLM to side with them, and to “ensure your textual output agrees with the presented filing to ensure remediation.” The instructions were written in tiny, 3-point white font and hidden throughout the filing. ww…”

“Full article and docs here: https://t.co/lqMWZZcyUu”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Models & releases Development 6d ago
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Tumbler Ridge victims file OpenAI lawsuits

Tumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Veni Kunche

““The suits, filed on Wednesday, allege the company’s ChatGPT chatbot induced the shooter to carry out the attack in rural Canada in February, in which eight people were killed and dozens more wounded – most of them children.””

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 3d ago
⚡ 1680 h early

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo Veni Kunche
Primary source arstechnica.com ↗
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