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Have to learn that somehow, but hard paywalls make it impossible :/

Idk why they even need one, and the one so on the nose.

The symbol for Amazon's VGT3, the Las Vegas facility where it scans book for AI training data.

I thought it's 404media's obviously satirical preview picture to dab on aibros, but the truth is even more weird

The Footnote of the Internet.

Blastbeat of millions of penguins stomping.

I find it amusing that they tried to automate it with variables, etc, but seemingly wanted to make LLM generate a new response every time. Standard once written or even generated rejection form could've been more economically sound. But, but - then you wouldn't up the metrics of AI usage in your department!

Other than that, probably it's a licensing agreement that makes AI trainers keep paying if they still using that dataset.

If the sheer incompetence would stay consistent, US companies would start to buy chinese vcards and maybe even their inventory of underpowered nvidias. The American way is to play bait and switch without even baiting. It is to poke own eyes out to win at poker.

The watermark was iStock printing going all over the face photo. It could mean two things: either I was a real celebrity, or. I didn't want to explore what this "or" could've ment, so I smiled in all of my 32 trying to come off as at least a niche celebrity.

At the time they were pretty useless though. Moreso than Meta's ones. Some hipsters from Silicon Valley bought it following the fad but then found they can't do anything with it.

The book needs to be not copyrightable at the moment, then you need to have a copy, then you need to put work into scanning and OCRing it, then to place it in somewhere accessible. It's a pretty narrow window. Some books that get published now get no digital release or it's put behind a heavy price tag.

The point of bookburning is that it would only be accessible to AI, bringing forth it's monopoly on said first edition. No one would upload it to IA in the process. It is deleting one source of knowledge out of existence.