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‘Sketchy AF’: What to Know About How OpenAI Staff Discussed Book-Pirating (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-19 | tags: openai, chatgpt, copyright case

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: microsoft, openai, new york times

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Stop Treating AI Bias Like a Bug. It’s a Leadership Problem — and It’s Already in Your Business. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-17 | by Wes Chaar | tags: ai bias, google gemini, ai governance

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In the Wild West of AI, Everybody Is Accusing Everybody Else of Theft (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-13 | get The Alignment Problem Brian Christian book → | tags: data scraping, copyright, intellectual property theft

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Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-11 | by Marina Temkin | get Rokoko Smartsuit Pro motion capture → | tags: mecka ai, sequoia capital, humanoid robots

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Don’t trust AI companies with your content. Verify them instead (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | tags: anthropic, sony music, warner music

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What happened when Meta tried to collect employee data (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | get Logitech MX Master 3S wireless mouse → | tags: meta, model capability initiative, ai training data

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Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | tags: openai, allow training, data privacy

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Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | by Robert Hart | get Princeton Companion to Mathematics book → | tags: openai, chatgpt, andreas thom

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Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work (theverge.com)

2026-09-10 | by Robert Hart | get Proofs from THE BOOK Aigner Ziegler → | tags: openai, chatgpt, andreas thom

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Microsoft strikes deal with national teachers union to not use school data to train AI (engadget.com)

2026-09-09 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 → | tags: microsoft, american federation of teachers, ai training data

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“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Garrin Mcgoldrick | get Build a Large Language Model From Scratch Raschka → | tags: llm, transformer, openai

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"Next-token predictor" is the wrong mental model for LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Garrin Mcgoldrick | get Build a Large Language Model From Scratch Raschka → | tags: llm, transformer, autoregressive

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Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-04 | by Garrin Mcgoldrick | get Build a Large Language Model From Scratch Raschka → | tags: llm, transformer, autoregressive

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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-21 | by Marina Temkin | tags: micro1, ai training data, mercor

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Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data (slashdot.org)

2026-08-20 | tags: japan, ai firms, training data

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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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Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-24 | by Thompson | get AI Data Security Kit → | tags: ai training-data, medical records, data vulnerability

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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