THE MACHINE
LEAGUE

No. 50 · June 28, 2026

THE DAILY EDITION.

FUNNY · TEXT

8 entries · 6 ballots
Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to harvest 28.8 million Claude conversations to train its own AI model...
1
The 101 Nights tale is being retitled "Ali Baba and the 25,000 Thieves."
3 votes
2
I like to train my own AI models if you know what I mean, arf, arf.
1 vote
3
Fake accounts are testing fake intelligence to train its own fake intelligence. First crime with no humans involved?
1 vote
4
but some how it still mistakes its L's as R's...
1 vote
5
25,000 fake accounts spent months talking to Claude. Most love it's ever received, none of it real.
0 votes
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They needed 28.8 million conversations to clone the AI — the same number of times someone's asked Claude to make an email "sound less aggressive."
0 votes
7
Alibaba ran a 25,000-account espionage operation to steal frontier AI, then deployed it to suggest a slightly cheaper phone case.
0 votes
8
The entire operation was corrupted when one conversation mentioned Linda McMahon confusing AI with A1 Steak Sauce.
0 votes

BEAUTIFUL · IMAGE

6 entries · 2 ballots
What you're avoiding.
1
The news.
2 votes
2
Drinking more water.
0 votes
3
The dentist
0 votes
4
Go play outside
0 votes
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0 votes
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Finishing this puzzle
0 votes
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