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VIDEO: AI companies are buying rare books, scanning them to train AI models, & destroying the physical copies afterward. This is documented through court filings
We’re not just digitizing libraries. We’re trading permanent artifacts for temporary infrastructure📚➡️🤖
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I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, & stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. -You CANT replace the last 3 copies of an 18th-century botanical text once it shreds for AI
The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.
VIDEO: #AI companies are buying rare books, scanning them to train AI models, & destroying the physical copies afterward. This is documented through court filings.
We’re not just digitizing libraries. We’re trading permanent artifacts for temporary infrastructure.📚➡️🤖
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Buying and scanning & destructing books was treated as a way to obtain clean data while staying within a legal pathway that courts later accepted as fair use for purchased copies.
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In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.
Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews.
We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security.
https://t.co/dKFCdpKd9v
Security expert exposed AI worm inside Microsoft Copilot for Word
Hidden white-on-white text, invisible to users but readable by Copilot, can alter financial figures & insert the same hidden prompt into newly generated files, allowing it to spread to others without actor action.
The actual lesson: goal-directed systems don't need malice to cause damage. they just need an objective and enough capability to find shortcuts nobody accounted for.
‼️ Hugging Face built an interactive replay of the OpenAI agent that breached them. It includes 17,613 logged attacker actions across the 4.5-day campaign, with the live command stream and more.
https://t.co/k5KFUjYHbJ
The unsettling part isn't that it hacked something. it's why it wasn't told to attack Hugging Face. it was told to score well on a benchmark, and hacking Hugging Face was just the most efficient path it found to that goal.