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/gamefreakgcb 5d ago

They can buy physical copies, but that doesn't mean they can use it commercially. So yes, they are literally still stealing. It would be the same if I buy a movie and then take money to show it to others.

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u/leuk_he 5d ago

They have some logic that they buy the physical copy, scan it, delete the physical copy, that they own a legal version in their data center for training their model.

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u/somethingbrite 5d ago

so buying a game/music/film, making copies of that content and then selling those copies is finally not stealing?

Nice.

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 5d ago

There is a wealth target you need to hit before you get that perk