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AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books

www.pcgamer.com English
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    Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
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    • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Someone throw the book at 'em!

        • heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4 hours

          They’ll scan it and say, “please, sir, may I have some more.” Leeches.

        • goatinspace@feddit.orgEnglish
          5 hours

          • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 hours

            very loaded article riding the popularity of ai bad narrative. Doesn’t remotely tell the whole story, only the parts you want to hear to be mad at.

              • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                3 hours

                Please enlighten us

                  • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3 hours

                    They commit mass amounts of copyright infringement before burning the books.

                  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish
                    2 hours

                    It’s pcgamer.com no ones expecting Pulitzer work

                    • cavitationfetishist2@quokk.auEnglish
                      3 hours

                      Slopper spotted!

                      Tell me,what is the good reason to destroy millions of books without making them public?

                      Watch it copy paste some cat farts at us.

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