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They're destroying things that don't have to be destroyed and compiling the information into privately owned megastructures they'll then charge us to access while we own nothing and they can then alter the books.
Nah I'm good. Everything these AI companies stand for is fucking evil and malicious.
For every AI that researches a legit medical issue, they start literally burning fucking books, replacing jobs, screwing basically everyone, and making the world overall much worse.
If you can't see why these companies destroying any amount of books is bad, idk how to help you. Maybe look up a list of who has ever mass destroyed books. There's not a lot of good people there.
Humans have been scanning books for decades. All books created today exist electronically before (a copy) gets physically printed of a book that remains existing.
Type writers are a museum piece. not a utility anymore. Calm down.
You don't need to destroy books to scan them.
You're very gullible.
"gullible"
hurry, you better take up reading books to learn the meaning of these words you're using before the AI 'destroys' the useless copy you never wanted nor thought about until now.
There's a bunch of dirty corporate boots that need a good licking, I've heard you're just the person for the job!
Corporate called: they wanted to congratulate you on spreading your type of crazy to undermine sanity and empower them further.
Get mad, bro. 😌
You're still here. I'm not here alone. youre the one that got rage baited about 1 copy of a book. So Calm down.
Not really. There is a lot of full manuscrit books made to this day. By scholar in region where electricity is not as much available. By student compile hand-written notes from oral teaching. By people composing small things for family and friends or just for themselves. By activist and locally involed people making just on or a few copy to be share in physicial Space around them.
That's a huge part of what exist outside the publishing industry.
And we used copiers and voice recorders for that since before computers. That has been used since the 70s. Even earlier.
scanning that and adding it to the common knowledge and making it accessible is something we've been doing since computers were a thing decades before today.
Students now still use recordings that can be parsed into text.
Suddenly it's an issue now because someone needs so badly to be outraged by literally everything that can be distorted into a rage bait title like this one.
So you have the digital source of literally any book? Literally any single book you yourself didn’t write or publish.
Because the source code for GTA6 exists, but you sure as shit don’t have it.
And how about you? Do you have the hard originals of every book? Why do you suddenly care only now that books are being copied?? They've been getting scanned for half a century now. You only care now to be outraged about it something for today
I don’t think that’s the argument you think it is.
The outrage is over the books being destructively scanned, en mass, and held in private after the fact. Very, very, very different than the majority of scanning which is non destructive, and usually shared.
'En mass'
No. That's not what that means.
They destroyed (a) copy they bought. That is not en mass.
you didn't buy it. It's their copy.
They didn't destroy all copies. Go buy yourself one of you wanted it so bad. You can support the author too.
If they buy 100k books and destroy them all, even if every one is unique, that is en mass. I don’t know why I have to explain that to you, but there you go.
They bought each one as a copy. They aren't taking all copies of all books.
Not sure why I have to explain basic math to you but here we are. Learn math bro.
And get if they are recycling THEIR ONE COPY OF EACH which they no longer use that isn't illegal nor worth an outrage. That's how recycling and reducing waste works. Better than hoarding.
Do feel free to go buy a copy and support the author if you're this passionate to get enraged over what someone does with their own one single copy.
And if there are three copies of that book?
I don’t get it, you’re acting like every book has an infinite number of copies available. Which is just factually incorrect.
No one here is stopping you from buying a copy. So stop talking like we are.
In fact a good idea would be you buy a copy, scan it, share it to all those who you feel would hurt from it being so withheld.
then you can stop whining about finite copies.
Problem solved.
Lmao, I don’t see much point in talking with you, you’d be happily skipping around while books were being burned telling people it’s fine, there are plenty of other books, these ones aren’t theirs.
This literally isnt book burning though. it is recording and recycling of (one) copy of (a) or even each book. Not even the original. One copy of many of each. One that you didnt even care about it until now.
So you calling it book burning or comparing it to actual book burning is misinformation.
And it is you willfully wasting your time here trying to convince somoeone of a lie you're desperately trying to push here to control the emotion of others. Manipulation. A shit rage bait piece for attention and pandering to unnecessary anxiety and trying to depress other's no doubt.
So if I am annoying you by calling out this shitty faćade:
Good.