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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
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.
Replying to @FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
Putting the slightest chance of profits over the conservation of rare books is also pure malice in my book. With a layer of makeup.