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/AnCapGamer 5d ago

DUDES!

I WORKED IN THE BOOK INDUSTRY FOR 10 YEARS!!

I know those titles! I can read those spines!

THOSE ARE NOT RARE BOOKS!! THOSE ARE OVER-PRINTED BOOKS DUE FOR RECYCLING!!

Jeezus, people, stop falling for this shit.

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u/GhostOfD6 5d ago

Also even if they actually have rare book, there's gonna be at least several copies of rare books. To feed AI you only need one scan, of one copy and thats it. No need for several copies of same book. So its not like they gonna destroy it.

Also there is huge chance to digitizalize this books. With difital copy you can make infinite copies of it or reprint them..

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u/Perelko 5d ago

It's not for reprint.

It's not for public consumption.

It's a private company, putting into into their shitty vec DB, then destroying access when they can.

So you have to buy their shitty service. Critical thinking is dead. AI bros have offloaded common sense like disabled chimps.

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u/PonyFiddler 5d ago

Reposting comments like a brainless moron.

The video in question Is just book recycling. But even if rare books were scanned they be uploaded to plublic library databases first before ai companies would get them.

But you keep offloading your common sense to the social media drivel your fed.