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AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books
gardinerbryant.com/ai-companies-are-now-destroying-warehouses-full-of-rare-books/
The Bryant ReviewAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksThe damage caused by the AI regime has yet to be fully realized.
It would be slightly less horrrible if they released the digitized books online, or even just paid archivist organizations to carefully do the job for them and make public the works to then train on.
But no. They choose the worst way to do everything.
Replying to @FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
Welcome to capitalism…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/china-burning-book-censorship-online-outrage/
Welcome to humanity
Foreign PolicyWhy Is China Burning Books?A report that Chinese officials destroyed books and religious texts at a state-run library has sparked online outrage.Replying to @FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
Except this is different. That book burning was due to ideological reasons. This one is due to pure greed and disregard for collective knowledge
Replying to @wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Even really evil people respect knowledge.
These aren’t people.