AI Companies Buying Books

"and then shredding the originals" *WHAT?*

The government : no restrictions on ai , this is fine

AI has to be scrapped, it's gone so far that we don't even know if they're lying

Damn, they’re literally replacing history. Those sci-fi about searching the old world started shaping

Calling pre-2022 antique is wild

That's just giving 451 degrees Fahrenheit vibes at this point...

"Let's throw away history. Screw preservation am I right?" -an ai company(probably)

Shredding, burning, censoring, banning books needs to be punishable by a minimum of 20 years in prison. AI companies need to be shredded. This is a crime against humanity.

Oh yay the apocalypse machine is apocalypsing y i p p e e

So we can’t own games and now books? Isn’t the future just going to be SO great I’m SO excited. Genuinely what are we doing

What’s even the point of shredding them

Everyday we're living closer to the cyberpunk plotline but without tall buildings

Thomas, did I hear this correctly? Pre-2022 books are sold at a premium and shredded?

"Where books are burned, people will eventually burn too" - Heinrich Heine From his play "Almansor"

If a data center pops up near my area, I'm becoming a terrorist; this has to stop!

Never thought I would see companies trying to prevent ai "incest" in some way

I don't care if they shred them, but they should be mandated to post their digital copies to the internet archive if they do. Not like it's likely the books have anything useful that we don't already have digital, but it's nice posterity.

They're shredding them up, because of copyright restrictions

They want to monopolize knowledge.. and this needs to stop

Google "memory holes 1984" as in George Orwell's classic, "1984"...not quite book burning in the classical sense but....chilling.