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AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Except this is different. That book burning was due to ideological reasons. This one is due to pure greed and disregard for collective knowledge

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You're right, it is different, the AI companies are misled into thinking this will generate some sort of profit but the Chinese were just doing it from a place of pure malice.

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