Post #4248935

2026-07-30 15:48 UTC

Apparently the quote was shocking enough they've rewritten the post, but IA has the receipts. https://web.archive.org/web/20260720152647/https://isbndb.com/blog/print-books-sourcing-ai-training/

Replies (5)

@kosure@mas.to 2026-07-30 16:23

@overholt@glammr.us Is also a ghoulish pull quote. "these greedy SOBs already got paid. We put their information into a black box and you have to pay us a recurring fee to access it."

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot 2026-07-30 16:25

@overholt@glammr.us "A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose." The same could be said of CEOs and their DNA. Maybe we could freeze a cheek swab from each of them and dispose of the physical remains (aka "the delivery mechanism")? According to their logic, nothing of value would have been lost.

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@riley@toot.cat 2026-07-30 16:32

@overholt@glammr.us What AI hath written, IA shall remember.

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@ngrn@soc.ngrn.uk 2026-07-30 19:49

@overholt@glammr.us It blows my mind that these idiots are so far detached from reality that destroying books to them is just an optics issue.

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@linguistory@code4lib.social 2026-07-30 21:08

@overholt@glammr.us Ironic, given that IA itself has destroyed plenty of physical books to scan them

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