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

[linguistory@code4lib.social]

@overholt Ironic, given that IA itself has destroyed plenty of physical books to scan them

[jessamyn@glammr.us]

@linguistory @overholt iirc they mostly do non-destructive scanning

https://digitization.archive.org/digitization/

[classwario@mastodon.social]

@overholt Thank you for taking the time. My reply was an attempt at snarky rhetorical brevity. Essentially @kosure ’s point. Whose intellectual cycle/property? It’s theirs. Their black box. Their interpretations. Their conclusions. Their abstractions. Their decisions and influence as source material gone. Distillation abstraction ownership while claiming sagacity, while demanding transaction tribute.

[javerous@social.sourcemac.com]

@overholt @sv1 These people are mentally hill. I think they are the kind who hate physical world, their body, everything. They just want their mind uploaded somewhere and live in a virtual world.

[michelleporche@sfba.social]

@overholt I have not felt this much pain learning about the destruction of books since I read “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean about the LA library fire. Recommend this read by the way.

[amberage@eldritch.cafe]

@overholt "the value has been migrated" (into our greedy for-profit hands)

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@shadows @librarymonster @overholt @mamsell Given that the tech fascists literally envision trillions of digital humans (obviously only the plebs, they get immortal human bodies) colonizing the universe, it’s the logical conclusion of their argument.

[bumblefish@mastodon.scot]

@allpoints @overholt Migrated...wait that's what geese do....so like the goose, the book was not valued.

[heafnerj@mstdn.social]

@overholt These people are idiots.

[geoffberner@zeroes.ca]

@allpoints @overholt "Aw damn, looks like someone migrated the value of my bike!"

[nedhamson1@mastodon.social]

@overholt forget rare historical books, scrolls, tablets … not!

[june@mspsocial.net]

@overholt these people are so detached from reality.

[stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk]

@overholt
The CEO of an AI company is merely a delivery system for genetic coding. Once the genetic coding has been transferred from the CEO's genome to a digital repository the delivery system has done its job. The CEO has not been butchered in an abattoir, their value has migrated. The body goes back into the material cycle, the genetic information into the intellectual one.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@overholt what soulless ghouls.

[sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog]

@overholt These fuckers need to be strung up and prevented from damaging another human pursuit ever again.

[glassresistor@sfba.social]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @overholt oh we know

they copy the isbn and metadata
save each scan in some datalake
ocr each scan into another datalake
associate metadata in db with artifacts in lake
sucked into a model
each retraining can reuse as needed

no way they delete the artifacts but also no way they would share

[rothko@beige.party]

@overholt "its value has migrated." but BOOK WAS NOT VALUED.

i'll take my golden egg now, thank you.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@overholt
These fools have never seen the original 'Rollerball'. They should.

[linguistory@code4lib.social]

@jessamyn @overholt I think that sometime in the 2010s they shifted to sending a lot of books to China and the Philippines for scanning.

I'm going off of this DH project, which looked at the metadata attached to scanned IA items in addition to talking to scanning staff: https://scanninglabor.github.io/IAScanningLabor/discussion.html

I saw these folks present at a conference, and recall them saying the books were being destroyed rather than sent back across the Pacific—but can't find confirmation

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@overholt They're just very foolish people. They think we're living in the Star Trek age, which is set three centuries from now.