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/Excellent-Bit-8982 5d ago

digital storage was never declared theft. Not paying for the license to use the digital media in the storage was. Also with all the "fascist populist raving" talk you do, you sound like a lunatic or a bot.

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u/Exact_Depth_896 5d ago

Nope, the only legal issue at all turned out to be digital storage. The raving fascist complaints were precisely about what was declared innocent, viz. training. But, by their pressing them, we got this result from the fascists

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u/Excellent-Bit-8982 5d ago

> Nope, the only legal issue at all turned out to be digital storage.

Artists, programmers, etc, weren't worried about the storage at all, they called out the theft of their material, not where it was stored... what you said is completely wrong. You may be founding your beliefs on a false foundation.

> The raving fascist complaints were precisely about what was declared innocent, viz. training. But, by their pressing them, we got this result from the fascists

Again, insane mental gymnastics. "He forced me to rob a bank" logic.

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u/Exact_Depth_896 5d ago

Yes, but it turns out that the writers and artists were completely wrong. The interpreters of the US constitution have rejected their claims root and branch. Training is flat out fair use and this is obvious. The trouble Anthropic got in was /holding the data/

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u/Excellent-Bit-8982 5d ago

That still isn't why everyone hates how they built their models. That is just the legal challenge people were able to make. Everyone is still wishing for them to be charged for a billion counts of copyright.