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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 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: anthropic, claude ai, better world books

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (slashdot.org)

2026-07-21 | tags: isbndb, ai training data, pre-llm

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China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Anton Shilov | tags: tsmc, ai models, china

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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI (theverge.com)

2026-06-20 | by Terrence O'Brien | get AI Music Licensing Database → | tags: atlantic, alex reisner, ai training datasets

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Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes (slashdot.org)

2026-06-03 | get Meta Workplace Privacy Badge → | tags: meta, superintelligence labs, ai training data

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This company wants to clean your house for free, to train AI and robots (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-29 | get Robot Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: shift, ai training data, household robots

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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-28 | get AI Model Error Detection Kit → | tags: llms, false statements, training data

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Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Chris Mellor | get Samsung 980 Pro SSD → | tags: huawei oceanstor dorado, large language model, norway national library

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COROS thinks ChatGPT should analyze your training data (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-21 | get Coros GPS Running Watch → | tags: coros, chatgpt, mcps

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The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-14 | by Jessica Klein | tags: deepfake, ai training data, adult performers

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I won a championship that doesn't exist (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | get Custom Championship Trophy → | tags: llm, poisoning, anthropic

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‘This Makes Me Super Uncomfortable’: Meta’s Plan to Track Employees’ Every Click and Keystroke Sparks Backlash (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-22 | by Sherin Shibu | get Workplace Monitoring Software → | tags: meta, ai training data, model capability initiative

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Meta Plans to Turn Its Employees’ Clicks and Keystrokes into AI Training Data (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get Meta AI Training Keyboard → | tags: meta, ai training data, employees

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AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-03 | get AI Data Annotation Service → | tags: mercor, ai training data, job work

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AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-03 | get AI Training Data Kit → | tags: mercor, ai trainer, tech giants

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Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | tags: miasma, ai web scrapers, nginx

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AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion (theverge.com)

2026-03-15 | by Hayden Field | get Emotion Recognition Software Kit → | tags: ai companies, handshake ai, openai