We start this week with Emanuel’s follow-up to his Amazon book scanning story, in which he spoke to someone who worked in the Amazon warehouse which destroys books to train Amazon’s AI products. After the break, Emanuel and Sam tell us about the same few names appearing in LLM output over and over again. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph tells us why ICE is buying loads of data about ‘voter fraud’.
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- Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
- The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing
- ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
- ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data
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Joseph is an award-winning investigative journalist focused on generating impact. His work has triggered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines, shut down tech companies, and much more.
