Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4 hours

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

  • 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.

      • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

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

        • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2 minutes

          Good heavens! I’m starting to think there’s something rotten in this “steal people’s work, regurgitate it back at them at great environmental cost and if they don’t like it, force it down their throats at every opportunity” industry

    • 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.