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A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them

AI firms buy and destroy rare pre-2022 books to create clean training data, concealing purchases through NDAs while courts approve the practice.

TechRadar

AI Has Run Out Of Clean Internet Data. Now It’s Coming For Physical Books

AI companies are buying physical books in bulk to train chatbots, then destroying the copies. Here’s what’s going on.

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LinkedIn’s newest feature: A ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ button

LinkedIn is also removing its ‘enhance with AI’ option for users and replacing it with an option for proofreading that does not significantly re-write posts

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AI's hunger for data is now consuming rare books and booksellers are cashing in

Artificial intelligence firms are purchasing vast quantities of physical books. These books are scanned to train large language models and then destroyed. Rare and out-of-print titles are particularly sought after for this purpose. Booksellers report a significant surge in demand for these older publications. This practice raises concerns about the…

The Economic Times

Cops Tracked Woman's Abortion Across 83,000 Cameras for Her 'Safety'; Court Records Show They Eyed Criminal Charges

A Texas sheriff's office used over 83,000 ALPR cameras to track a woman post-abortion, sparking federal scrutiny, state legislation, and charges against the sheriff. The case highlights surveillance and reproductive rights issues.

International Business Times UK

AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.

PC Gamer

AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

New report reveals that AI companies are buying up physical books to train their LLMs and destroying them in the process.

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'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes are destroyed in the process.

International Business Times UK

Leaked Document Reveals How ICE Tracks Phones, Cars and Social Media at Scale

A leaked 2024 ICE inventory lists 115 surveillance and data tools, from phone tracking to facial recognition — and shows what's since been added.

Latin Times

Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data

404 Media reports that in training its models, the AI music generation platform lifted at least "2,013,545 music clips" from YouTube Music alone

MusicRadar

AI Game Clones Are Threatening Indie Developers Before Their Games Even Launch

AI-generated game clones are making it harder for indie developers to succeed by copying original ideas before launch and flooding digital stores.

Player One

We Finally Know How To Spot AI In Fiction (Hint: It’s Boring As Sh*t)

A new study finds AI-written fiction is easy to spot raising fresh questions about creativity and copyright.

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Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ reportedly exposing real email addresses

Apple’s Hide My Email privacy feature is under fire after a new vulnerability revealed it was exposing, not hiding iCloud users’ real email addresses.

Tom’s Guide

Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem.

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Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness

People seem all-too-ready to anthropomorphize LLMs and AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, reckons a Microsoft AI researcher.

The Guardian - UK

The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding

A character bearing that name appears in a remarkable number of chatbot-generated stories, writes Arwa Mahdawi. He could be a messenger from the future – or a warning that generative AI is in danger of ‘model collapse’

Tom’s Guide

A 13-word Reddit comment can trick AI search into recommending scams, researchers find

New Cornell research shows just how little it takes to poison the answers from tools like ChatGPT and Gemini — and the queries you're most likely to ask are the easiest to manipulate.

Tom’s Hardware

Several police officers arrested for using controversial Flock AI license plate reader system to stalk romantic partners, says report — investigators have unearthed at least 18 such cases in the US over recent years

Tens of officers have been fired, and some even arrested, for abuse of the Flock license plate reader system used by police departments throughout the US, according to a new report.

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Texas community lost 87 acres that were donated as a park. Then they found out it was sold to a data center developer for $10 million

A $10 gift became a $10 million sale.

Tom’s Hardware

Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade

Texas farmland originally donated in 1999 to be used only as a public park has been sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

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Satya Nadella denies claims Microsoft wants to “make people addicted" to AI — as the company shifts from Bill Gates’ software vision to an agentic future

Satya Nadella denies claims Microsoft wants to make people addicted to AI as the company pivots from traditional software to AI agents.

International Business Times UK

'Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud': Leaked Plans Reveal Microsoft Wants To Make Users Addicted To Its New AI

Leaked Microsoft documents reveal a strategy to make users dependent on its AI assistant, Scout, raising concerns about the ethical implications of habit-forming software.

International Business Times UK

'The Chatbot Asked No Questions': Hackers Reportedly Talked Meta AI Into Surrendering High-Profile Instagram Accounts

Hackers exploited a flaw in Meta's AI support bot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts by requesting email changes, sparking debate over AI's role in account security.

Latin Times

ICE Agents Now Have Access to Data on 20 Million People Through Palantir System: Report

An ICE official recently said that the technology allows for investigative work that previously took hours to be completed in 10 to 15 minutes

GamesRadar

Man claims Yu-Gi-Oh cards found in trash have made him "over $60,000" already, with an expert valuing the total haul near $1 million

It's a wild story, and now I need a little lie down

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