Post #4240568
2026-07-30 11:59 UTC
Replies (4)
-
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-07-30 15:29
@overholt@glammr.us Oh, I’d like to suggest that it’s much more than simply feeling a knife in the gut. This is book burning 2.0 We don’t know what AI does to, and with the content it ingests. A consolidates control over information into the hands of the few. The value of the book was to broadly disseminate information. The value of AI to psychopaths is to consolidate control over information.
-
@kimlockhartga@beige.party 2026-07-30 13:26
@overholt@glammr.us It's also short-sighted. We cannot conceive of a massive interruption to our access to technology? It could happen in so many ways.
-
@bici@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 15:42
@overholt@glammr.us when will they be destroying the papyri from ancient Egypt? The Scrolls?
-
@foolishowl@social.coop 2026-07-30 15:46
@overholt@glammr.us I have a lot of ebooks around, but I've occasionally made a point of buying physical books, in part because digital data is so vulnerable. Even the DRM-free epub files are vulnerable to the decay of storage media with short lifespans. The mass destruction of physical books seems like an intentional threat. People talk about this being the result of a grotesque judicial interpretation of copyright law, but I don't think "AI" companies care about law that much. They seem to violate laws pretty frequently. This looks to me like a deliberate act of violence. They actually intend to destroy physical books.