We start this week with Emanuel’s big story about Amazon buying, and destroying, masses of books to train AI. After the break we talk about a couple of wild cases where people are using AI. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about Meta’s new smart glasses patent and research into how perverts are using them. 

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⁠We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility⁠
⁠‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit⁠
⁠Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them⁠
⁠Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party⁠

⁠Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women⁠