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The Paperclip Maximizer Is Here: How a Bulk Book Purchase Exposes AI’s Darkest Secret

📅 August 14, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A mysterious bulk purchase of 5,000 obscure ISBN-registered books across Europe isn’t a prank — it’s AI training data extraction. The paperclip maximiser is real: a machine optimising to consume every piece of human written culture, bypassing licensing and consent. Writers, publishers, and readers are inside the blast radius.

2026 AI Books Copyright ISBN Mystery Paperclip Maximizer Training Data

The FelonyBench Is a Scam. The Real Crime Is in the Training Data.

📅 August 5, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

FelonyBench reframes AI safety as a legal accountability test, but it ignores the elephant in the room: the industry’s training data pipeline is built on massive copyright theft. This benchmark isn’t a moral reset—it’s a distraction that lets companies pretend lawlessness is a model behavior problem instead of a business-model problem.

Accountability AI Safety Benchmark Copyright Felony Meta Training Data