LinkedIn's 'Seems like AI slop' button, announced July 30th, has been clicked by over one million users, according to chief product officer Hari Srinivasan. The company reports a 40% reduction in view…
Investigative journalists from 404 Media hid an AirTag in a batch of rare books sold to Amazon, tracking the shipment to VGT3, an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where books are destroyed af…
An expert witness hired by 3M to testify in a lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion that killed three people used ChatGPT to write up to 90% of his expert report, while 3M paid Knighthawk Engineering …
A new type of AI-generated nonconsensual image, dubbed 'subtlefakes,' is spreading on X, featuring celebrities in slightly altered but photorealistic poses that are harder to detect than traditional d…
An investigation by 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their bindings, and scanning them for AI training data, destroying the physical copies in the process. The operatio…
Flock Safety, a surveillance company valued at $8.4 billion, has installed 120,000 AI-powered license plate cameras across every US state except Alaska, used by 7,000 law enforcement agencies (40% of …
Amazon has been buying books in bulk and scanning them at a Las Vegas warehouse, cutting spines and destroying the books, according to a tracking device placed by 404 Media. Amazon confirmed it buys b…
404 Media reports that Amazon has been buying and destroying rare books to train its AI models, as detailed in an investigation by Emanuel. The podcast also covers cases of AI misuse, including an exp…
An investigation by 404 Media placed an AirTag in a shipment of rare books and tracked it to an Amazon facility where employees confirmed that books are stripped of their bindings and scanned for AI t…
Amazon is scanning and destroying rare books to comply with copyright law, according to a post by Steve Klabnik responding to a 404 Media report. Klabnik argues the reporting fails to acknowledge that…
An Apple AirTag hidden in a shipment of rare books tracked the books to Amazon's VGT3 warehouse in Las Vegas, where workers cut bindings off books to scan pages faster, destroying the books, according…
Amazon has been purchasing large volumes of rare and out-of-print books, scanning them to feed its AI models, and then destroying the physical copies. An investigation by 404 Media, published on Augus…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book fitted with a tracking device to an Amazon AI training facility, revealing Amazon's previously unreported book-buying operation for AI training data. The …
Amazon is reportedly buying massive quantities of rare books, scanning their pages to train its AI models, and destroying the tomes in the process, according to a report by 404 Media. The report track…
Amazon is destroying rare books to obtain text for training its large language models, a practice first reported by 404 Media, which tracked a rare book to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas. TechCrunch …
A Houston explosion lawsuit revealed that Josh Autenrieth, an expert witness hired by 3M, used ChatGPT to write his entire report defending the company, leading to a court order to turn over 350 pages…
An investigation by 404 Media tracked a shipment of hard-to-find books to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas, where workers allegedly cut bindings and scanned pages, destroying the books. Amazon stated i…
An Apple AirTag hidden inside a book from a large used-book order led 404 Media to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas that employees described as a site for scanning printed books into AI training data. …
Amazon is buying printed books through commercial marketplaces, cutting off their bindings, scanning the pages for AI training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an August 17th inv…
Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying rare books to train its AI models, according to an investigation by 404 Media. A bookseller placed an Apple AirTag in a book ordered anonymously via Bibl…