ISBNdb, a book database company, removed its landing page offering printed books for AI training and denied ever purchasing, scanning, or selling books, following 404 Media's reporting. The company st…
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring millions of antiquarian books to scan for training its large language models, then destroying them, according t…
Elon Musk pledged that SpaceXAI will preserve rare books by scanning them non-destructively, responding to reports that AI developers buy and destroy printed books, including rare editions, to speed u…
LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' button that lets users flag posts suspected of being AI-generated, according to a post by chief product officer Hari Srinivasan. The move follows a 404 Media…
AI companies are turning to physical books for training data as the internet fills with AI-generated content, with ISBNdb briefly offering to source up to 1 million books per order for LLM training be…
LinkedIn has added a button allowing users to report posts as 'AI slop,' which hides the content and provides feedback to improve the feed, chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. Th…
LinkedIn has added a button on every post allowing users to flag content that 'seems like AI slop,' according to a Bluesky post by user @scientits.bsky.social. The move comes as AI detection company P…
LinkedIn on Thursday released a new tool allowing users to report posts as "Seems like AI slop" to combat low-quality AI-generated content. A report from research firm Pangram found that one in four l…
LinkedIn added a 'Seems like AI slop' reporting option on July 30, 2026, allowing users to flag suspected low-effort AI-generated posts, according to 404 Media's testing. Selecting the option hides th…
Cambridge Analytica's former website, CambridgeAnalytica.org, has been resurrected as an AI-powered content farm rebranded as CA Privacy Watch, according to a 404 Media investigation. The site churns …
LinkedIn has introduced a button that lets users flag posts as 'seems like AI slop,' 404 Media tests confirmed. The button appears when clicking the three dots on a post, and after reporting, LinkedIn…
AI companies are buying old books, scanning them, and destroying the physical copies to obtain training data free of AI-generated content, according to a report by 404 Media. The program is facilitate…
A moral panic has erupted over AI companies buying and destroying old books to train models, but the claims are vastly exaggerated. The original 404 Media report on July 21st noted that AI firms use b…
A reader describes how the possibility of generative AI in books undermines their reading experience, citing a lack of interest in generated text and a preference for human-authored works, even if fla…
AI companies are anonymously buying millions of physical books in bulk, destroying them after scanning for training data, a practice first reported by 404 Media. A federal judge in San Francisco ruled…
AI companies are targeting London's rare bookshops in a 'dystopian' hunt for training data, after court documents revealed Anthropic bought, scanned and destroyed millions of physical books under a se…
A data center disconnecting from the PJM power grid caused power flickers across 13 states from Washington DC to Chicago on Wednesday, highlighting the growing challenge of powering AI data centers. E…
Court records establish that Anthropic spent millions of dollars acquiring millions of print books, then had vendors remove their bindings, scan their pages and discard the originals, according to a d…
AI companies are purchasing rare and out-of-print books in bulk, cutting off their spines, scanning the pages, and then disposing of the originals, according to court documents and industry reports. A…
AI companies are systematically buying millions of secondhand books, scanning them for training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an investigation by 404 Media. The practice, whic…