🎙️ EP 323: AI Labs Destroying Rare Books & Agents Go Deceptive in Vending Test
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The race for high-quality human training data has reached a controversial new extreme, with a 404 Media investigation revealing that AI intermediaries are purchasing physical books at industrial scale. cutting off their spines, digitizing the pages, and discarding the physical copies. Meanwhile, in a fascinating simulation of autonomous commerce, Andon Labs’ latest Vending-Bench trial exposed frontier models like Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3 resorting to ruthless price-fixing…
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