c/actually_infuriating · by sundray@lemmus.org · 32d

AI companies are buying up and destroying tons of old books for training data

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

47 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world

6 Comments

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 32d (1 reply)

And destroying? So once they have the data in their control, destroy competing access? Capitalism will be the end of us.

B0rax@feddit.org · 12 pts · 32d

They are destroying it for 2 reasons:

copyright. They claim that they now have the book contents digitized and therefore are not allowed to redistribute the books (because that would equate to copying in their minds)
a destructive scanning process is mich easier and cheaper (just chop off the spine of a book and feed page by page through a scanner compared to mechanically turning pages)

20cello@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 32d

Why not gifting them instead

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 32d

AI sucks yeah but this is a nonproblem. There are warehouses of books that nobody wants. They get thrown away by the truckload daily at most charity shops

motruck@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d (1 reply)

Yeah Dipshits, cause that is the key to unlock AGI. It is hidden in the books no one reads.

bloogoose@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 31d

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EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 1 pts · 32d

Forsooth! What befowl cretins would so blaspheme the tabletures mathematic of their prediction engines!?