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Every time I hear that claim it sounds weird to me. You can't say that without an explanation.
Sure, scanning a print copy can mean distroying it but a book as a work still exist. We are very far from having scanned every books which physical copy are numerous. If AI trains on every romance novel published in the 80's, it is far from distroying books by distroying physical copy.
Now if AI company are searching for rare books to scan and distroy, it is much more worrying but finding rare editions or print copies of books is a trade and the normal citizen can't jumps in to save the day.
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.