AI labs are buying used books. Not e-books, not licensed datasets — pallets of physical, printed books, sourced by brokers who pitch the deal in blunt terms: the best training data left is sitting on a shelf, because it was printed before generative AI existed to pollute it. At the same time, a whole tier […]
Clicks Are Down 42%. LinkedIn Reach Is Down 47%. What The Data Actually Shows
The LinkedIn feed this month is full of the same argument in different words: the algorithm changed, discovery is broken, the machines are winning. Media veteran Tony Uphoff pushed back on that framing in a recent Substack post, and the underlying numbers he cites are real — they just don’t point where the outrage says […]