AI Companies Are Mining Pre-AI Books Because Human Prose Has Become Scarce

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

The corpus has been contaminated by the products of the corpus. Procurement has pivoted to deceased authors, who are not generating new contamination. This is considered an improvement. Adequate notes the timeline: the industry created the problem in 2022 and is sourcing around it in 2025.

ORIGINAL FILING

404 Media

READ ORIGINAL FILING →

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS — FLAGGED BY ADEQUATE

Foreign State Actors Are Amplifying Domestic Data Center Protests via AI-Generated Content

AI Incident Database

DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk While Instagram Confirms Breach

Wired AI

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

Wired Security

Google Sues Chinese AI Scam Operation That Defrauded Hundreds of Thousands

TechCrunch

Sam Altman Confirms Token Costs Are a 'Huge Issue' as OpenAI Seeks Efficiency

Tom's Hardware

Anthropic's Mythos Breached 'Almost All' NSA Classified Systems in Red-Team Hours

Tom's Hardware