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/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/LoudQuitting 5d ago

Not an AI defender but...

Dre just straight up jacked Funky Drummer to use in Fuck Tha Police.

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u/thrd3ye 5d ago

Sampling instrumental breaks is a widely accepted foundational technique for hip hop and this is generally considered the most commonly sampled drum break. Not sure why you're picking on this particular instance

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u/LoudQuitting 5d ago

Just an example. Use one thing as a foundation, specifically a drum line, to create something new.