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		gfd on Oct 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI Data Laundering Was this term coined on HN? I remember first seeing it (used in an AI context) from this 2019 comment under "Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167689 Most of the predictions in that first comment came true.

lachlan_gray on Oct 18, 2022 [–]

William Gibson mentions data laundering as an illicit activity in the Neuromancer books! It’s plausible that the phrase itself was coined there

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