• tremble5218@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    Amazon wasn’t caught doing shit. “Caught” implies there is a possibility of consequences. Two days from now nobody is going to remember this story and the world will move on and there will be no consequences for this.

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      2 hours ago

      “caught” also implies they’ve been hiding it… It’s been out in the open how they scan books to train AI for a while now.

      • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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        1 hour ago

        It has been almost a trope that every time the discussion of them buying up the used market and cutting them up to scan, some apologist comes along and says that these books are mass produced garbage and not rare.