Post #4116187
2026-07-26 15:45 UTC
If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure
But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially...
" #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books
Replies (3)
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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social 2026-07-26 17:58
@benroyce@mastodon.social Let's buy AI CEOs and ingest them
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@Mudlark@bark.lgbt 2026-07-26 21:22
@benroyce@mastodon.social I have a question about the recent ruling about how digitising books is transformative by itself now. Does that mean that places like the internet archive are in the clear to do that too? Scan and upload any book? I haven’t seen this talked about yet.
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@Social_Recluse2@mastodon.social 2026-07-26 15:58
@benroyce@mastodon.social Now we’re living in Fahrenheit 451? How many prescient novels are we living in so far?