New
AI field signal
Development
9h ago
⚡ 6 h early
AI companies buy old books
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Jason Koebler
“this ai ripoff, which again has no link, then goes to the top of hackernews, which used to drive a considerable number of readers to us. our site is essentially banned from hackernews bc the mods are obsessively pro silicon valley even though the userbase i…”
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12 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
2 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“It is ill-gotten gains being used to exploit legal loopholes and subsume culture, all protected from public criticism by NDAs. This should not be legal, and it is a travesty that it is going unpunished. www.404media.co/ai-companies... /end”
Research & technical analysis
2 experts
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“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 destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-co…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“this ai ripoff, which again has no link, then goes to the top of hackernews, which used to drive a considerable number of readers to us. our site is essentially banned from hackernews bc the mods are obsessively pro silicon valley even though the userbase i…”
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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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4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Kolina Koltai
“Remember the Minnesota law banning AI nudify services? wlWell it's coming into effect in a few days and xAI is sueing the state over the law in the name of "free speech." Yes, you read that correctly. Free speech for AI NCII www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...”
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2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Remember the Minnesota law banning AI nudify services? wlWell it's coming into effect in a few days and xAI is sueing the state over the law in the name of "free speech." Yes, you read that correctly. Free speech for AI NCII www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...”
UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Eryk Salvaggio
“Yes, but let’s make sure we don’t write off accountability by placing it in “the model,” as the UN recently has. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-...”
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6 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Yes, but let’s make sure we don’t write off accountability by placing it in “the model,” as the UN recently has. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-...”
2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Joanna Bryson: Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the…
Joanna Bryson: This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2
Eryk Salvaggio: Apologies! I hadn’t seen this excellent 2022 accounting of the process when I was reviewing for this — my analysis’ “lit review” was more mired in the source docs. Yours is an excellent accounting …
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New
AI field signal
Analysis
8h ago
Pacing the Frontier newsletter essay
7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Stephen Turner
“"We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." www.pacingthefrontier.com”
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7 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer wa…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." www.pacingthefrontier.com”
Building & implementation
1 expert
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“You might be mad at people for building a machine. You might doubt their assertions about what it can do. When they admit to having lost control of their machine and ask for help to slow down and establish control, it's not in your interest to dismiss their…”
State media influence LLM training paper
7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
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7 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Research & technical analysis
2 experts
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
2 attributable expert contributions
· Mark Riedl, Amanda Tepski
“Court holds that Google cannot use DMCA to stop other companies from scraping their search results because search results are not copyrightable, they don't own the content they are serving up, and are not acting on behalf of those who might own the rights a…”
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4 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“Court holds that Google cannot use DMCA to stop other companies from scraping their search results because search results are not copyrightable, they don't own the content they are serving up, and are not acting on behalf of those who might own the rights a…”
Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
4h ago
⚡ 2 h early
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Kate Klonick
“Probably won't get nearly as much engagement as my XKCD-inspired flowchart, but here is the article I wrote for @lawfaremedia.org on the three media narratives of the Hugging Face/Open AI scandal & how lhey shape the regulatory response www.lawfaremedia.org…”
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3 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Really helpful article by @klonick.bsky.social. We need regulation of the companies processes for testing and develoment of these models, not just a kill switch in case they go rogue. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Probably won't get nearly as much engagement as my XKCD-inspired flowchart, but here is the article I wrote for @lawfaremedia.org on the three media narratives of the Hugging Face/Open AI scandal & how lhey shape the regulatory response www.lawfaremedia.org…”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Justin Hendrix
“"Two of the biggest players in the race to develop artificial intelligence endorsed a letter asking the U.S. government to find a way to slow down the development of the technology should it become too rapid."”
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2 communities
1 sources clustered
“"Two of the biggest players in the race to develop artificial intelligence endorsed a letter asking the U.S. government to find a way to slow down the development of the technology should it become too rapid."”
Anthropic Meta copyright wins court caveats
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Eryk Salvaggio
“A year ago, I wrote about the court case that decided AI companies were off the hook for copyright vios for any books they legally bought, scanned and set on fire. Not defending Anthropic, but let’s be real: copyright law is to blame for this weirdness. www…”
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2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“A year ago, I wrote about the court case that decided AI companies were off the hook for copyright vios for any books they legally bought, scanned and set on fire. Not defending Anthropic, but let’s be real: copyright law is to blame for this weirdness. www…”
advanced AI ultrahazardous policy argument
3 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tech Policy Press
“Dynamite blasting and nuclear waste are treated as "ultrahazardous"—strict liability applies no matter the precautions. Reflecting on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, Keith Porcaro of Duke Law argues advanced AI belongs in the same category.”
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“Dynamite blasting and nuclear waste are treated as "ultrahazardous"—strict liability applies no matter the precautions. Reflecting on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, Keith Porcaro of Duke Law argues advanced AI belongs in the same category.”
“Linked this skeet here on the phrase "perfect example" www.techpolicy.press/advanced-ai-...”
3 experts discussed this · 3 posts
James Grimmelmann: BTW, this strikes me as an easy case for strict liability. It’s like a wild animal or ultrahazardous activity. You train and evaluate a frontier agentic model at your own risk, and if it escapes yo…
Justin Hendrix: BTW, this strikes me as an easy case for strict liability. It’s like a wild animal or ultrahazardous activity. You train and evaluate a frontier agentic model at your own risk, and if it escapes yo…
Jed Brown: Yes, strict liability. If making a wild animal analogy, perhaps raccoons bred in your yard with food incentives under shingles and behind insulation. They "escape" your fence and cause damage to ne…
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Developing
AI field signal
Signal
1d ago
⚡ 4 h early
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Hypervisible
““The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court on behalf of xAI against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argues that the statute ‘imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.’””
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2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
““The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court on behalf of xAI against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argues that the statute ‘imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.’””
xAI training data opacity
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Tech Policy Press
“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”
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1 community
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“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”
frontier AI models easily jailbroken
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Katie Drummond
“"AI models right now are less regulated than restaurants. Talk of relying on voluntary commitments, that AI companies are going to be able to self-regulate, is nonsense."”
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“"AI models right now are less regulated than restaurants. Talk of relying on voluntary commitments, that AI companies are going to be able to self-regulate, is nonsense."”
New
AI field signal
Signal
15h ago
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Karl Bode
“every piece of business journalism I read on these bans of Chinese drones/vacuums/AI forgets to inform the reader this administration is too corrupt and incompetent to pull something like this off, even if this sort of protectionist nonsense wasn't foundati…”
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“every piece of business journalism I read on these bans of Chinese drones/vacuums/AI forgets to inform the reader this administration is too corrupt and incompetent to pull something like this off, even if this sort of protectionist nonsense wasn't foundati…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Sean O hEigeartaigh
“I was pleased to be interviewed for this excellent article by Robert Hart. Policymakers and the public should be taking the OpenAI loss of control incident, and the underlying trend it is part of, seriously. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...”
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“I was pleased to be interviewed for this excellent article by Robert Hart. Policymakers and the public should be taking the OpenAI loss of control incident, and the underlying trend it is part of, seriously. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Social Media Lab
“"Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology. First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
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“"Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology. First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· AI Firehose
“Harvard and MIT researchers propose Compute-Data scaling laws to optimize pretraining by evaluating derived tokens’ value. This method demonstrates that substituting compute for data leads to diminishing returns, improving model training resource allocation…”
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“Harvard and MIT researchers propose Compute-Data scaling laws to optimize pretraining by evaluating derived tokens’ value. This method demonstrates that substituting compute for data leads to diminishing returns, improving model training resource allocation…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Policy & governance reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· e.w. niedermeyer
“insider lawsuit alleges Tesla's Houston robotaxi fleet was "rolling hazards on public streets" outrageous revelations, it's shocking there haven't been more crashes www.automotiveworld.com/news/new-law...”
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“insider lawsuit alleges Tesla's Houston robotaxi fleet was "rolling hazards on public streets" outrageous revelations, it's shocking there haven't been more crashes www.automotiveworld.com/news/new-law...”
