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Behind the Blog: Rare Books and Baseball Brain
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This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together.
This week, we discuss Flock blogging, "rare" books, and Jesus Christ.
EMANUEL: I was out last Friday so I want to talk about the story I published two weeks ago about AI companies buying printed books so they can scan them for training data .
The story has gone mega viral on X, but mostly in the form of a post from an engagement farming account that both misrepresented my article and didn’t properly link back to our website.
This is frustrating because it means a lot of other people siphoned traffic from our site and also because it caused a fair bit of confusion about what is happening.