The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry
Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
AI Watchdog
The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world’s most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators
At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
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.
Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI
Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools
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The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry
Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
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.
Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI
Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools
AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators
At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.
Introducing AI Watchdog
An ongoing investigation by The Atlantic to reveal the inner workings of generative AI
YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’
The video platform is quietly using AI to “improve clarity” in uploaded content. Why?
Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means
Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?
The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media