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The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.

"Common Crawl has opened a back door for AI companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites. And the foundation appears to be lying to publishers about this..." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Copy of the Best American Short Stories 2025, edited by Celeste Ng

Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.

Librarian here

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Review | To Steven Pinker, human knowledge is just a game In ‘When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,’ the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses

This review of Stephen Pinker’s new book is delicious: wapo.st/46TNpWq

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

OMFG

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Hi Kuma!

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Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

Lawsuit claims AI service Otter secretly records private chats, from @npr.org

www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Can confirm

Adorable

😢 I am so sorry for your loss. My Lucy passed last April. I’m still very sad, but it gets better, albeit slowly.

Let yourself grieve for her. Farewell, Sweet Sofi.

Column: Where are the shows about regular people fighting back? A heist to erase student loan debt is at the center of the novel “The Payback.” Why isn’t Hollywood making similar stories?

I had a great conversation with @ninametz.bsky.social of the Chicago Tribune about my novel The Payback and why there should be more television where regular people band together to fight systems much bigger than themselves.

What a premise. I cannot wait to read it!

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I would pay a boatload of money for someone to teach my corgi Clyde or Claudia’s corgi Gracie to do this. But I think only Gracie would be adventurous enough to take to it

ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social

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Bella agrees. She would Zoom it.

Mom and baby Luna

This picture is everything.

CORGI PARADISE

Many, many times

Thank you for this. A great piece.

Yay

This seems to be the primary use case, outside of highly specialized, repetitive tasks required for scientific data measurement.

A massive con.

Good luck, sweetie.