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It's only racism if it comes from the USA region of North America. Otherwise, it's just sparkling discrimination.

Yeah, I was talking about the Gemini blurb at the top of Google search results.

LLMs can make stuff resembling art. I'm not interested in it, though, because a human didn't make it. What makes art art, what makes it interesting, is artists.

The room is filling with sewage. I'm not sure that this is a good thing.

It sucks as a search engine. When I'm searching for something, I want factual, correct results, not a hallucinated answer which is backed up by none of its sources.

When I click through search results, I'm reading, evaluating the sources, and synthesizing the information into something which I am reasonably satisfied is true enough. I don't feel comfortable handing that cognitive task off to a machine. The machine's job is to help me find the sources, not tell me what the truth is.

Having a machine that tells you what is true is the most dystopian shit ever, and it would've sounded completely insane only 5 years ago.

Money is no object to AI companies. That's one of the things that alerted the booksellers, in fact---masses of books were being purchased without regard to price or subject matter.

Yeah, model collapse is worrying, but I don't see how they can do anything about it due to how LLMs work. There have been some articles written about this drawing an analogy to the grey goo problem in nanotechnology. The end result is that the free web becomes essentially useless and knowledge becomes balkanized and paywalled.

The answer is yes in all cases. Well, almost all. They don't want books printed after 2022, because those might have AI-generated text in them. Anything else is fair game.

Are you skeptical that the books being destroyed are actually rare? Or are you skeptical of the existence of rare books?

"Rare" means "difficult to acquire". Under your definition, the only books that would qualify would be ones in museums.

I'm only interested if I get AOC feet pics.

Especially since the articles make it clear that the AI companies don't care about rarity or quality. It's just a dragnet to get as many books as possible. Sure, a lot of the books are going to be garbage, but some of them are going to be valuable, too.

The AI must be fed, and the only criterion is the book has to be published before 2022.