Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.
@MoundLore “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.” - Captain Beatty says in Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451,' reducing books to dangerous weapons because they can awaken thought.
‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.
It now markets itself as the responsible lab.
One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.
Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.
One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.
A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.
Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts.
Here it is admitted in open court.
As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey dominates at the worldwide box office, we delve into the Letterboxd community’s ranking of this iconic director’s entire filmography from best to worst. https://t.co/iF8u4r9bnW
Recordemos que, después de esto, la policía británica tuvo que tuitear que si esa noche sufrías violencia doméstica, denuncies. Después salieron los datos y efectivamente esa noche se registró el pico máximo histórico de casos.
Que financien la propaganda que quieran, todos sabemos que la realidad es otra.