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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain (futurism.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

In fact, Anna's Archive has a special offer to AI companies. Probably much cheaper and much less destructive than destroying books.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Too little, too late. The billion dollar lawsuit was already handed down. The Top 0.001% authors got the last major payday they will ever get. The message to AI corpos is pretty clear: Buy the physical media, consume into AI, burn it down just to spite them!

    Is it evil? Yeah, sure. But, people who understand how power works understand that this was going to be the inevitable result after that lawsuit.

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