AI News June 21, 2026
Today's AI headlines: Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’, In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity se
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each.
According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it's impossible to know exactly who has used them, Google and Stability ha