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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

www.pcgamer.com

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AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

www.pcgamer.com

wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
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    very loaded article riding the popularity of ai bad narrative. Doesn’t remotely tell the whole story, only the parts you want to hear to be mad at.

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      Tell me the truth that Big Artist doesn’t want me to know.

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      Please enlighten us

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        They commit mass amounts of copyright infringement before burning the books.

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          Good heavens! I’m starting to think there’s something rotten in this “steal people’s work, regurgitate it back at them at great environmental cost and if they don’t like it, force it down their throats at every opportunity” industry

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      Mind providing the parts that you think are more relevant?

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      Slopper spotted!

      Tell me,what is the good reason to destroy millions of books without making them public?

      Watch it copy paste some cat farts at us.

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      It’s pcgamer.com no ones expecting Pulitzer work

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