AI companies are buying up and destroying tons of old books for training data
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And destroying? So once they have the data in their control, destroy competing access? Capitalism will be the end of us.
They are destroying it for 2 reasons:
Why not gifting them instead
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
Yeah Dipshits, cause that is the key to unlock AGI. It is hidden in the books no one reads.
Forsooth! What befowl cretins would so blaspheme the tabletures mathematic of their prediction engines!?