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AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Strip-mining the world of old books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260723-ai-vendors-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot - podcast

time: 8 min 42 sec

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago

There is nothing they won't destroy in the pursuit of owning everything. If they can't own it or it doesn't benefit them, they will destroy it and bleed out any value that's left.