LLMs memorize whole copyrighted books.A recent study showed that it is possible to extract large portions of popular books from all the major chatbots. The chatbots were given only the first pages of the book as input, and then the researchers were able to systematically extract large parts of the book. “Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs…

Students and staff at the California State University are petitioning for the university to not renew their ChatGPT Edu contract. “The CSU must reject Silicon Valley’s AI hype and invest in the people who make this university system a destination for our 460,000 students. The challenges that we face in higher education cannot be resolved with…

There is a rapidly growing opposition to data centers across the US. Local opposition groups have more than 120k members across 100+ groups. The opposition is working. $64 billion of data center projects have already been delayed or cancelled due to local opposition.Source: https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report Find and join a group near you: https://togetheragainstai.com/no-new-datacenters/

AI companies are spending trillions of dollars trying to build AI and robots to replace human workers and concentrate power in the hands of a select few tech elites. In the process, they steal copyrighted materials on an industrial scale and cause many other harms. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/10/tech-companies-are-stealing-our-books-music-and-films-for-ai-its-brazen-theft-and-must-be-stopped But AI development is not inevitable. AI needs…

Creative jobs are already being lost to AI. 99% of creators say their work has been scraped without consent.73% of musicians say unregulated GenAI now threatens their ability to earn a living.83% of voice artists reporting cloned voices and AI-generated avatars already circulating online.58% of photographers already lost assignments to AI by February 2025. Read…

Research by the CCDH estimates that roughly 3 million sexualized images of women were created by Grok and 23,000 of children.  After enormous backlash, Musk moved Grok’s ability to produce these images from the public-facing Grok profile to premium users of the Grok chatbot.  “Let’s be very clear, child sexual abuse material is not a…

Americans are starting to turn against datacenters.  In 2025, 25 datacenter projects have been cancelled in the US. This is 4 times more than in 2024. Why is this happening?  As AI hype has been growing, companies have been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on building out datacenters. But as some of these datacenters…

A German judge has ruled that ChatGPT cannot legally be trained on song lyrics. The case was brought forward by a large German record label. Evidence presented during the trial included ChatGPT generating the full song lyrics of famous German songs, including “Atemlos durch die Nacht”. The court ruled that this means OpenAI, the company…

In September 2025, there was a hunger strike against unrestrained AI development. Watch the video on our youtube channel.  Experts have been saying for years that developing AI that is smarter than humans might lead to catastrophic outcomes. Even many people who work in AI companies have acknowledged the risk. But still, they continue trying…