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Alex Reisner

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 5, 2026
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Top 10K sites
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Jul 14, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Alex Reisner

    Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World (opens the original)

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    Last week, the internet raged as social-media posts and news articles accused AI companies of “destroying the world’s books”—including “millions of rare” ones—by chopping off their spines to scan them more easily, and discarding them afterward. One article said the news was “sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed.” The investor and AI skeptic Michael Burry called the practice of sacrificing rare books “evil incarnate.” Even Elon Musk weighed in

  2. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Alex Reisner

    Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn? (opens the original)

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    Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. Amid tech companies’ ongoing efforts to vacuum up as much data as possible to train AI models, Meta has taken public posts from its own platforms, scraped massive amounts of content from the rest of the internet, and pirated millions of books to train its AI models. Now the company is being accused of downloading much more illicit material: huge volumes of porn, nonconsensual ce

  3. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Alex Reisner

    Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster (opens the original)

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    Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are so resource-hungry that tech companies may be purchasing 70 percent of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage. As a result, the prices of computer memory and storage are skyrocketing: Hard dri

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