From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw.

[jd_cunningham@sunny.garden]

@overholt They don't have the foggiest idea of what a book actually is. Or perhaps the destruction of access to knowledge and human connection is the point.

[nicksilkey@hachyderm.io]

@overholt served its purpose ... to the destroyer.

Man. Treating the collection of human knowledge and art in printed books as single use is just peak capitalism. It's no wonder that same knowledge and art is ultimate being rent sought token by token, chat bubble over chat bubble, by the same mindset. The shoe fits.

[petko@social.petko.me]

@overholt words of the utterly deranged

[sennoma@chaos.social]

@overholt I have rarely seen such weak, sanctimonious, disingenuous drivel; nor ever wanted so badly to stab its author.

[mzedp@plasmatrap.com]

@overholt@glammr.us Funny, they seem to be claiming that the information is preserved, but recent copyrights claims were dismissed because the "training" is supposed to be "transformative".

So which is it bubs? Is it there, or is it transformed?

[andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@overholt @briankrebs So Marie Antoinette obviously didn’t die on the guilliotine in 1793.

[lin11c@toad.social]

@overholt
What about the act of reading and the internal mental process of discovery and absorbtion that goes on in the human mind? What an insane comment to make. So this unique collection of words and thought processes is useless once AI has injested it? There freaks are anti-human and extremely dangerous.

[amirgaza@kafeneio.social]

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[grwster@mastodon.social]

@overholt "The bubble has not popped. Its value has migrated into the ether." Can't happen soon enough

[ftp_alun@infosec.exchange]

@overholt I feel a disturbance as if a million librarians cried out in fear and pain.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@overholt

Oh, I’d like to suggest that it’s much more than simply feeling a knife in the gut.

This is book burning 2.0

We don’t know what AI does to, and with the content it ingests. A consolidates control over information into the hands of the few.

The value of the book was to broadly disseminate information. The value of AI to psychopaths is to consolidate control over information.

[ronago@infosec.exchange]

@pattykimura @overholt Seems like the firemen are already at work in our world, too

[independentpen@mas.to]

@overholt Oh my god

[cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com]

@overholt cartoon villains made flesh

[imry@weirder.earth]

@overholt
*Pantheon* (2022)-ass statement

[phl@mastodon.social]

@gimulnautti @overholt I want to go cheer as the Carousel takes Sam Altman and his Slop Baron friends.

[bici@mastodon.social]

@overholt

when will they be destroying the papyri from ancient Egypt? The Scrolls?

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@overholt I have a lot of ebooks around, but I've occasionally made a point of buying physical books, in part because digital data is so vulnerable. Even the DRM-free epub files are vulnerable to the decay of storage media with short lifespans.

The mass destruction of physical books seems like an intentional threat.

People talk about this being the result of a grotesque judicial interpretation of copyright law, but I don't think "AI" companies care about law that much. They seem to violate laws pretty frequently. This looks to me like a deliberate act of violence. They actually intend to destroy physical books.

[overholt@glammr.us]

Apparently the quote was shocking enough they've rewritten the post, but IA has the receipts. https://web.archive.org/web/20260720152647/https://isbndb.com/blog/print-books-sourcing-ai-training/

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@kagan @overholt

I like your idea. Now try it using a book you know well. Might be 'interesting' to the IP lawyers arguing against the AI rip-off.