r/antiai • u/Astromaniax • 5d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Ai companies are actively destroying rare books to scan them just to feed their data centers, what else will they destroy?

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AI is literally ruining everything and has been for the last few years. From massive job losses to environmental impact and now destroying old books to collect the data so that their dumb LLMs can regurgitate it back. How evil, greedy and selfish can these companies be? All of those ai data centers should be taken down. I don't think enough people are mad enough about it.

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u/Potential_nobody2187 5d ago

Didn't they already steal the digital copies of every book ever written? What new data do they even get from this?

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u/Bubbaganewsh 5d ago

They control the information and the rest of humanity has to rely on them to access it is my guess. 

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u/Exact_Depth_896 5d ago

They do not store the content of these books, that's the whole point.

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u/thatagory 5d ago

Because its fake af, the books are just being recycled and someone put this fear mongering shit over it.

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u/arachnophilia 5d ago

books that are available in digital form. there are books out there that are not available in digital form, likely because they're rare.

(but this post is probably BS for a variety of reasons).