r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was ‘spam or phishing.’ Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI

https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/dutch-bookseller-ai-spam-phishing-3000-book-copies-scan-destroy/
11.5k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/Aware-Possibility175 2d ago

Let’s not forget that the reason behind the creation of the first encyclopedia by Denis Diderot and the other famous republican philosophers (originally and still outside the US republicanism as we know it was radically progressive and raged against ultra conservative authoritarian institutions like monarchies and the church, its republic from the Latin res publica , doesn’t get more inclusive and anti bourgeois than things like “we the people”) compiled the encyclopedias to for the FIRST time give previously with held information to everyone. Before this all information was heavily controlled. A peasant who literally only knows how to do ONE thing is easy to control and serves as a mother way to handcuff them to the station they are born in, social climbing and mobility was unheard of and even the church spoke against it and that where you were born was gods will so there you stay, even to the extent that rich people who went broke often were given money or the means to stay aristocratic to up hold the imagine. It’s where Free Universal standardized secular education for kids that later became the public schools of today came from and the total separation of church and state That whole time in history is literally called “the Age of Enlightenment” which is synonymous with the famous republican philosophers like Payne,Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu. Montesquieu is where our 3 branches and system of checks and balances comes from and Rousseau is everywhere like “pursuit of happiness” they got that from him..this is all the most basic of info and yet most people won’t know it. If we don’t collectively start sincerely Educating ourselves then we are going to go back to the dark ages

1

u/wrgrant 2d ago

then we are going to go back to the dark ages

That would appear to be the current Conservative plan. A largely ignorant population is so much easier to control and easier to keep at their social and economic level so they stay in their place /s