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This makes me so sad I almost wanna cry. How fucking heartless do you have to be to destroy books like some nazi book burning ritual? FFS as if I didnt despise AI enough already. Regulate AI into oblivion.
It’s about ringfencing the info/story. She should release the booklist so alternative digital can be collected and protected.
There is no ‘good’ reason for destruction. Not even ideological. This is simple planned greed
It's almost the same as how physical media is being phased out even in gaming, greed and preventing ownership. I can probably go on Annas Archive right now and get all the books I could ever want, but I still want to have physical books if they decide to metaphorically burn down the library of Alexandria and take down The Internet Archive and Annas archive. I feel like we are losing valuable information at an alarming rate, If the original books are lost and only the digital books remain, then what if someone edits/deletes the books to change history? Scary shit imo.
Edit: Sorry for all the typos :(
Yup, its an assault from many directions. Books have had a glut in the past and TBH most people were reluctant to pay for average chaffe, our second hand shops are a testament. I personally love print, the smell the feel, the knowing the processes involved involved, I feel the same about other media. I will argue all day long recent digital has harmed these. I know some champion digital art, id argue if its so readily available is no longer desirable...but that is a whole other argument.
I think for me its a matter of preserving the ideas. Why are they doing this? traditionally the idea of burning book was to stop the spread of ideas. In terms of revolution (renaissance, enlightenment, then industrial) each new one has information to flow free-er and ideas have grown So whats the aim here for burning? is it to sell the info, is it to repress ideas? i think identifying that will allow better preservation and resistance.
The tech bros have shown what monsters they are. These people abduct people, experiment on them, rape them, kill them, etc.
Our whole government knew and ALLOWED IT ALL. Even before Trump. People at the FBI knew and said and did nothing, people at the CIA knew and said and did nothing, NSA and military were the same.
Now these monsters own them all