cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49718467
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (a.k.a. modern, legalized book burning)
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
3 Comments
pixxelkick@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 30d
Yeah this is stupid to compare to "book burnings"
Trying to compare the two reeks of clickbait, ew.
everett@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 30d
That's in reference to cutting the pages off the book binding to streamline scanning.
pixxelkick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
Which isnt even remotely close to what "book burnings" are.
Comparing the two is either an act of a deeply uninformed person, or someone trying to manufacture outrage.