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There there. Give some credit to the American people. They’re the ones that elected him. Twice.

If you thought AI was profitable that’s on you. Normal people have had the information required since the start.

It’s also expected that new tech companies won’t see profits for the first 10 years. That’s not new.

In this case, it’s just a filter of trigger words and phrases that flag certain messages.

Something we’ve been able to do since at least 1971 if someone wanted to. So it’s not that new either.

We’ve “always” been capable of it. But yes. It is sobering to see that a company now actively does it.

WW2 started over 80 years ago. And they had the technology to spy on electronic communication then.

You don’t know they spied on electronic communication during WW2? That’s why it’s called wire-tap… you’d literally tap into the wire and read the signal

It’s been technologically possible for well over 80 years…

No, publishers don’t go to the stores. The stores send the books back to the publisher.

What are my arguments? Can you even tell me?

Because what I’ve said. Is that we already do destroys millions of unsold books. And the various filings, rapports, inquiries, and fucking weather data, isn’t sold at bookstores to begin with. So the risk of those being bought and destroyed are zero.

So… you have not cared one bit, that publishers destroy unsold books for well over 50 years. But when these companies do it, it’s somehow terrible.

To scan every page manually is going to take hours. Where as if you remove the spine and separate the pages, you can feed it automatically in minutes.

And since they want to process hundreds of thousands of books… well, you’re literate so in sure you can do the math.

They’re just books… And again. For the fifth time probably, publishers destroy more unsold books than these companies. And have been doing so for the past 50 years.

No one seems to care publishers destroy old unsold books. But as soon as it’s AI companies then all of a sudden it’s a crime against humanity.

Buddy, how many books do you think are written every year?

If you started today. And did nothing but read until you died. You would not even have finished all the new books that were published last year.

Point being. There’s an enourmous amount of books printed every year. Most of them doesnt sell very well. So they are sent back to the publisher. And the publisher does not have room to keep every copy. So they’re destroyed. Maybe recycled into other paper products, maybe burned for energy. Regardless. What AI companies are buying is but a drop in the ocean.

And it has nothing to do with people “not reading”

Seriously, what the fuck are you talking about?

I’m sorry you didnt know the vast majority of unsold books are destroyed and recycled into something else. What did you think we did with them? No one wants to store 10’000 unsold copies of Robert Holms, “The straight circle”

What they’re buying are the cheapest literature they can find. Old unsold books no one wanted for decades.

There’s not a single scientific finding we have not digitalised, which you can buy the originals of. We’ve digitalised every single patent filed. Ever.

And weather data? Seriously? You think they’re buying weather data published on paper only? Where do you even buy that?

You’re doing an awful lot of speculating. The texts circulating through clubs, are circulating. These books were not.

Do you have any idea how many books we casually destroy? Books that never got sold, that are just wasting space for the next new book. The only difference is that unsold books being burned for energy isn’t manking the news. It’s just another thursday

These companies need quantity over quality. They’re gonna buy the cheapest books in bulk they can.

Contrary to what some might think. I’m not taking a stance for AI. I’m just pointing out, no one cared about these books 1 month ago. No one wanted to buy them. No one wanted to read them. That’s why they’ve been sitting on a shelf in a warehouse collecting dust.

They’re not valuable in any sense of the word. They’re only “rare” in the sense that they sold so poorly, there was no point in printing more.

This is such a silly thing to glue on the hate-train. “They’re destroying books no one wanted to read!” Oh no… anyway

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