Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.
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.
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.
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The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
It involves 4chan, of all places.
Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World
Are AI companies to blame?
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.
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Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI
Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools
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These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.
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AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
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Atlantic writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age.
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Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI
Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools
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AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators
At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.
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Introducing AI Watchdog
An ongoing investigation by The Atlantic to reveal the inner workings of generative AI
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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
ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal?
Three possible arguments against the tech company
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
Chatbots Are Cheating on Their Benchmark Tests
AI programs train on questions they’re later tested on. So how do we know if they’re getting smarter?
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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.