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what the fuck do you mean anthropic bought books and severed the pages from their spines to train their AI models what the fuck
buy the paper books so that AI can't holy shit they're physically destroying books now i feel like AI is becoming what George Orwell warned us about with the ministry of truth in 1984 i cant fucking take this anymore.
Okay, but pulping old books is a thing that happens constantly, all the time. Most of the time they aren't even scanned beforehand.
That’s the normal way to digitize a physical book, it’s not exclusive to AI training materials.
"If it is associated with AI, it is unprecedented and bad and dangerous."
Even if it wasn't the standard way to digitize books, OP is acting like they're out there seeking to destroy all books instead of "shredding up one copy of each book in order to scan that book." Oh no! The infinitely evil AI company will buy and destroy a single copy of each book! This is an Orwellian attack on our knowledge! The single copy of 1984 they didn't destroy because they already had a scan of it will destroy all copies of the book through sympathetic magic! They are coming for all of your books to destroy them, assuming that you are a Half-Price Books who is selling those books and has exactly one copy of every book you are selling!
You shouldn't talk before reading about this!!! They:
1) deliberately seek old and rare books, because other models are less likely to have them and they want data variety.
2) they DON'T SHARE AFTER DIGITIZING
3) SOME BOOKS ONLY HAVE A FEW COPIES IN EXISTENCE
4) have unprecedented budget for this, tens of millions of dollars!!!
So yes, maybe there is only one copy in existence and the AI companies do not care!
The fact that you think point 4 is relevant casts infinite doubt on the other three.
Here is how it has gone with every single argument against AI that I have ever seen. Someone starts off with a broad and shocking claim about how evil AI is, and that claim is an obvious lie ("AI data centers cause droughts!"). Pushed to admit it, they will fall back to a narrower claim that is also a lie ("Well okay the overall water consumption is totally inconsequential, but really they consume water from vulnerable communities!"). Pushed on that, they fall back to another claim that might be technically true but requires grotesque insensitivity to scale ("Well okay it doesn't use a huge amount of water, but data centers use a million gallons of water a day! That's an important number we need to regulate, even though the total water usage is one trillion gallons a day!") or lies about more specific incidents ("Well okay AI doesn't use consequential water, but really it pollutes water! See this one story about a construction accident when building a data center that polluted the water, even though the data center wasn't there yet and it would have happened regardless of what was being built there!")
AI causes huge amounts of carbon emissions! Okay that was a lie, but really data centers use huge amounts of electricity! Okay that was a lie, but actually it's training the models that uses huge electricity! Okay that was a lie, but actually it's driving up energy bills for people in vulnerable communities, see this article where that didn't actually happen and there is a clear and obvious cause that has nothing to do with data centers!
This claim is on the first "Okay that was a lie, but actually."
I need more than your assertion that the first fallback argument is totally happening this time.
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
Quit bringing up a bunch of unrelated stuff that we're not talking about. I won't be sidetracked.
The OP said this was "becoming what George Orwell warned is about in 1984," an insane and incorrect thing to say, don't come here saying the OP told no lies. Also, you didn't read your own link.
You confidently claimed AI creators were destroying rare books. You linked an article about AI creators destroying mass-market books in the process of scanning them and pretends this is a threatening legal loophole that allows them to use books they bought. Then it mentions this completely above-board process NEXT TO the fact that booksellers have copies of rare books. All of the books being bought for AI training have ISBN database numbers, which antique books do not have. The "rare books" the stories refer to are "obscure textbooks that had mass-market printings but were not widely popular." The thing that happens to those books without AI companies scanning them, is that they are pulped and reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher (that's what the "if you bought this book with the cover ripped off" warnings on paperbacks was about), a process that not one person in the entire world gave a fuck about.
The article linked from your article about the Dutch sellers being asked for rare books quotes an antiquarian bookstore owner... about how a company asked him for a 2021 academic analysis of Irish folk tales and a guide to laser shock peening of advanced ceramics from 2018. The interviewed bookstore owner in your linked article says the books he's selling are old stock that nobody was ever going to buy and can't even call them "rare books," just "uncommon."
There are no antique books being destroyed. Mass-market texts with ISBN numbers are being destroyed in the process of scanning them, instead of what was going to happen to then otherwise, which was that they would be destroyed without scanning them. The headline is a lie and the claim is a lie. Your response to this will be the second layer of "Okay, that was a lie, but actually..."
You are so rude it's unreal. I think i will block you after this just for attitude because you're starting with the assumption that everyone here is coming at you with malice and if someone possesses incorrect information they are lying. Do not call me a liar. I don't lie, I give you the information I have. I have very little toleration for being called a liar.
Anyway okay let's break this down.
1) Op expresses their own emotion by "feeling like" this is becoming "like what George Orwell warned us about" in an unspecified manner which you then take as some kind of factual claim and call it a lie. It's not a lie I promise you she really does feel this way. Can't even vent anymore lmao.
2) Just because a book has an ISBN doesn't mean that it can't also be rare.
3) I am aware this was recently ruled completely legal (it shouldn't be) and never said that it wasn't. It's legal but it is wrong.
4)
I can't make you read but okay. All I'm going by is what the article says. If you think they're lying take it up with them. But don't you DARE call ME a liar.
At least AS FAR AS WE KNOW they aren't purchasing books without ISBNs but they could still be and we wouldn't know. And that doesn't invalidate my ORIGINAL claim about rare books because books with ISBNs can still be rare. I don't care what kind of books they are. I don't care if most of them are textbooks. There may be some of them that would have been pulped anyway, but that doesn't matter because usually this is a human involved process that weeds out books that ought to be preserved, and with AI companies bulk purchases it is assembly line.
You will no doubt find some way to allege that I backtracked, but what you are actually doing is reading a bunch of things into the post that I didn't say, and when I tell you that your assumptions were mistaken then you say that I "lied" and backtracked. Get outta here with that.
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