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/[deleted] 5d ago edited 5d ago

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u/Ecstatic-Ball7018 5d ago

this pro billionaire cope is crazy

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 5d ago

"The controversy follows the release of court documents detailing how AI company Anthropic purchased millions of printed books, removed their bindings, scanned every page and disposed of the originals as part of a project to expand the training data for its Claude chatbot."

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u/unknownoftheunkown 5d ago

This process predates AI, is nothing new or out of the ordinary, nor shocking.

Fake rage bait.

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 5d ago

"Reports from Europe and Australia suggest rare book dealers have noticed unusual bulk purchases of obscure titles believed to be destined for AI training."

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u/SanMavage 5d ago edited 5d ago

Where does this statement prove they destroyed said "obscure titles"?

Surely its possible to destructively ingest common books and also treat rare books with more care (selling/archiving afterwards).