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AI companies are buying up and destroying tons of old books for training data (www.404media.co)
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago

And destroying? So once they have the data in their control, destroy competing access? Capitalism will be the end of us.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Why not gifting them instead

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

    Yeah Dipshits, cause that is the key to unlock AGI. It is hidden in the books no one reads.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    AI sucks yeah but this is a nonproblem. There are warehouses of books that nobody wants. They get thrown away by the truckload daily at most charity shops

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Forsooth! What befowl cretins would so blaspheme the tabletures mathematic of their prediction engines!?

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