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Rare does not mean good. I could write a novel, and it would be fucking atrocious. If I released 5 copies, it would be extremely rare, but it wouldn't be worth shit.

They would only need a single copy of each book. They aren't trying to get all possible copies to prevent others from getting them. They are trying to train their AI as quickly and cheaply as possible

Except when they are digitized and made publicly avaiable

That is probably the ultimate conclusion. Except there will be some bullshit exception for Disney and all the other mega media corporations.

It's like if Fahrenheit 451 had the firefighters meticulously remove the spines and digitize the books before burning them. Amazon is buying a single copy of these books, and destroying the books to make it faster to digitize. Just not at all book burning.

You should be pissed about them using other peoples works to train their AI behemoth for profit. Not make a false equivalence to book burning...

They were purchased from Biblio. Literally Biblio's tagline: "Used Books and Rare Books from Antiquarian Booksellers"

The answer to that question is obvious. They can do it 1000x faster cutting the spin and sending all the pages through a scanner. Otherwise you have to have something flip through every page and take a picture.

What is mediocre about it? What would be an example of a good browser, and what are the differences?

That's what I said. AI haters are attacking, and he was defending against them, telling them to look in a mirror

It's not a matter of technical implementation, but a procedural one. It was never a secret, it was just too expensive and impractical to do. If you changed how you implement ads every single day, the ad blockers would have to change their rules every day. Just keep going forever, and eventually the adblockers won't have the resources to keep up.

It's like if a food truck driver was trying to operate without a permit. If they sat in the same spot every day, officials would see them and easily catch them. If they moved to different apots around town every day and repainted their truck, they could evade officials. That's not a secret, it's just that it's more work than it's worth. While not a great analogy for many reasons, the idea is that it was never a secret how to get past ad blockers. It was just never worth the money. You'd spend more money implementing the evasion than you'd get back from the ad revenue.

At this point yhey are probably using AI to do the job of adjusting ad formats, so humans especially couldn't keep up. Perhaps AI could be used to counteract it, but that's expensive to setup and keep running. A free software obviously can't aford that.

Sure, they could have been silent about it, but they would still get reports about missed ads. There would be enough hubbub online they'd eventually have to address. Maybe this way they can use the attenion to get more contributors

I'm not sure you understood. That quote is defending against AI haters

What stand does he take? "Don't use AI"? How does he enforce that? He is working with volunteers, so it's not like he can cut their pay