We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Fascists doing fascist things :(
@404mediaco Boycott everything associated with this monster that dehumanizes us in every way possible.
@404mediaco Next step, ship AI slop generated books labeled as pre-2022 ones.
@404mediaco Monopolizing human knowledge. Save your old books. Treat them with respect.
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Why do they destroy the book?
@404mediaco This just seems kind of desperate and futile. If their model can't perform well after it's been trained on every book that isn't out of print, what happens when they've scanned and destroyed every rare book too, and it still isn't good enough?
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So they are not training AI, they want to be the gatekeeper of knowledge, with a fare.
We should buy books in bulk.
«These booksellers suspected AI companies were behind these large bulk purchases because of the high number of books they were buying, the seemingly random choice of books, and the fact that these buyers, unlike libraries and universities, did not seem price sensitive at all.»
https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
I hope that booksellers raise prices for their rare books accordingly!
@404mediaco Yet Bezos is setting up a fund to protect certain endangered species! Hypocrite.
@404mediaco Another reason I'm a paid subscriber to 404 media. They are doing the lord's work in this tech-broseph-laden dystopian hellscape we all find ourselves in.
The dystopia pro dicted by Fahrenheit is already there.
@404mediaco I'm all for *checks note* Model collapse.
@404mediaco Destroying rare books is beyond fucked up! The material already exists in digital form for the vast majority of texts…and if you MUST destroy to scan, use modern reprints!
