AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
>>25426647This was expected. We are entering into a new Age gentlemen. Brace for impact.
All actually rare books are in state/university libraries and are not going to be sold.
Neat. We are in hell, aren’t we? That’s why people in power acts demonic, because they are actually demons punishing us. Why didn’t I realize it sooner?
>>25426657You think those corrupt pajeet faculty won’t do it? Too naive.
>>25426657AI would have far more rare book in its database than a stupid library
>>25426647If a book is rare it means it's probably shit anyways
>>25426662>saar
>>25426647This is bad, but what is worse is the way they are changing books (just nibbling around the corners, a little here, a little there) to fit liberal ideology. Old physical copies are still as the authors wrote, but what happens when they go? More and more new physical copies are the adulterated versions.
>>25426647Old comic books became valuable collectibles because of the paper recycling drive during WW2. This is another extinction event that will make old books more valuable
>>25426800That's the goal. Incremental editing until it's been completely defaced.
>>25426647for some reason i don't believe you're explaining this accurately
Good. I can't afford all the books I want to read anyway. It's a shame the content will get faster to me through AI, but that's better than the book collecting dust at some posh reseller.
>>25427666Satanic post.
>>25426647so wheres the link retard?
This is a fake scenario for the purposes of pearl-clutching. AI companies aren't going to bother spending $50,000 on some truly rare 18th-century botanical text. Does not happen. Books are destroyed and thrown out every day, we're not talking about Herculaneum papyri here.
>>25427769>we're not talking about Herculaneum papyri here.Surely, you have evidence of this.
>>25426647someone gave an example of the rare books theyre buying up and it's like "how to connect a printer in windows 98"
Surely they wouldn't need to destroy more than 1 copy to feed its contents to the AI
Cattle won't do shit. You're domesticated.
>>25426800>>25426840like this guy said. It's related to the Mandela effect you see in some things (Fruit of the Loom cornucopia and Dolly's braces in Moonraker being removed, etc.). Control the past to control the present yadda yadda.
>>25426647>source: this was revealed to me in a dream
Is it a bad time to say I just threw out my grandpa's entire book collection after his death because I couldn't carry it?
>zero proof posted
>>25428874Man, those old issues of Playboy had Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer writing in them...
>>25428874you WHAT?
>>25428839The Mandela Effect is 100% bullshit that can be easily debunked because people still own old VHS copies and old tape recordings of movies shown on TV.
>>25426647Is the point of the OP pic that the picture on the right is AI generated? Not that it makes Tate less of a degenerate faggot
Imagine having feelings for fucking sheets of paper. Newsflash, luddites! After you have taken high resolution scans of the pages, you can always reprint them.
My dad works in the Library of Alexandria, can confirm.
>>25428874you could've just left that shit on the curb with a free sign lol
>>25426647AI told you to reject the text you remembered reading. it was its final, most essential command. His heart lifted in jubilation as he thought of the enormous efficiency arrayed before him, the ease with which any AI would overthrow him in a debate, the subtle arguments he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the wrong! They were right and he was wrong.
I hate the AI Industry and I hate Silicon Valley in general, so anything that makes public opinion of them worse is a boon to me. I almost don't care if the story is true or not. Any stick to beat a dog with.Can you imagine if these guys started getting actually physically attacked? That would be cool.
>>25430286most AI stuff is pretty bad but I recently used it to fight a proxy battle with a medical company and frankly I could kiss it.
>>25430292The whole problem is it's replacing human thought. Like that speech Agent Smith gives to Morpheus in the first Matrix movie.
>>25426647AI generated post. Oregano goes in all fields.
>>25426814oh hey you qualify for free delivery, neat
