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nostrich · 7w
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Brewster Kahle · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql9sd5x6xxfhaxghmp8ej0wwryp75m0ny0uu3ds7q32d2qcykw5ysnmasgg wouldn't it have been great if publishers SOLD ebooks, even at the price they charge for a printed book? but they do not. they license. And then buy each other. Living ...
Nicholas Conrad · 7w
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^. .^ Paul Wilde · 7w
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Pffff... · 7w
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Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.

Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.

#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs

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DB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦ · 7w
This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole. #Anthropic #AI #Books #Culture #Tech #LLMs #Civilization https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/117/004/018/473/641/264/original/1dd3363f69c4b8b5.png
Thorium · 7w
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ZenHeathen πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpql9sd5x6xxfhaxghmp8ej0wwryp75m0ny0uu3ds7q32d2qcykw5ysnmasgg This is heartbreaking and disgusting. When I have a book in my possession that awful, full of bad information or worse, even then I can't bear to destroy it. I'm of German background--th...