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

[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.

[tekhedd@byteheaven.net]

@overholt I don't think I've seen a better explanation of how IP theft works.

[settima@mograph.social]

@overholt More spark than joy with KonMari-ing vandalism.

#Fahrenheit451

[bregt_lameris@mastodon.online]

@overholt never, ever, ever destroy your starting material after duplicaten. Rule nr 1

[mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org]

@overholt

Corporate speak for "we've found a way to monetize access to literature that you used to have access to for free or very low cost", aren't we the clever ones?

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@kimlockhartga They don't give a fuck about a massive interruption of OUR access to data. In fact, I'm quite sure they are banking on it. It will hike the price of access.

We are much more manipulatable and gullible without all that 'culture' stuff. Remember how much easier it was to manage illiterate peasants?

What they can't conceive of is a massive erasure of data. Because they cannot conceive it might ever happen to them. Which is emblematic of their psychopathy.

@overholt

[malt_@kolektiva.social]

@overholt They are destroying the commons by both generating absolute slop, and shredding our history