The scariest part is once the physical copy is gone, whoever controls the AI controls history. They can rewrite the past and nobody will ever have the receipts to prove them wrong
With my Historian hat on, I am genuinely horrified by this!
Digital copies are NOT the same as the book as historical artifact.
It was bad enough when the RCP proposed that their rarest (hence most valuable!) books be digitised and then sold.
This is desecration.
Terrifying thread.
Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.
the same ao3 discourse that has been done to death is finally reaching hockeytwt, so i thought i'd introduce you all to the dog park metaphor (created by yours truly)
I respect WIRED so much.
Tech companies are FUMING because they thought it would be positive PR for their products.
Instead WIRED is publishing articles which expose the downsides of AI and tech surveillance. And now they’re getting sued for it. Support them!