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[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Why is this so badly written?

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

❌ Destroying the books
✔️ ...to fully digitize them
❌ ...and hoard the data in their systems

How do they manage to screw things twice in a row?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -2 points 4 weeks ago

DAMNIT

The original article was on the australian news corp website, so it's probably not true and/or exaggerated but anyway

ha ha ai bad

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world -2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If they were truely "rare" books, then the owner wouldn't have sold it to an AI company. People who collect rare books are usually very choosy about who they sell them to. Now I don't like them destroying books in general, but I suspect the word rare in this article is likely not what most people would actually call rare.

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[–] AuthenticSchedule@lemmus.org -3 points 4 weeks ago

Literally this is the Library of Alexandria

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