It’s an ominous scene. A warehouse crammed with books set to be sliced open, scanned and then pulped by an AI lab. Australia is fighting back.

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[–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is the kind of dumb shit that only capitalism can promote

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Mass destruction of literature has been done many times in history, not only by capitalism. Like communist China, and they really promoted it too. The only difference is that it usually is done out of an idiology or form of control, while now it's out of greed from companies to train their LLM. True dystopia we live in.

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

    This is almost a word for word plot point in Rainbows End by vernor vinge.

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    Philistines!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    These people deserve the same treatment as they're giving the books.

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