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‘The law must take its course’. A king is going where no politician, from left or right, is showing the courage to go. It says something worrying about the state of democracies.
Once we base entire sub-genres on tags, which were born to orientate machines to begin with, we cannot complain when machines take over, that’s all I’m saying.
Too many books feel as if they’ve been written by an algorithm. If that’s how we write, and if that’s the kind of writing that gets promoted, of course an AI can do a better job than writers & publishers. Our first line of defence is writing and promoting better books.
One thing the Epstein files make clear is that we are all peasants cosplaying as gentry. Liberal democracy is over. We are indentured servants, right here, right now. The sooner we realise this, the sooner we have a chance to build something new.
When Meta trains it models on 80+ TB of pirated books from LibGen and other platforms, it's called 'fair use', without them having to pay penalties and / or receive some form of legal punishment, as proceedings are ongoing.
When Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR in 2010 he was facing a $1M fine and 35 years in prison, before taking his life in 2013.
What’s happening in the US goes beyond politics. This is not about different ideologies; this is about defining the context within which different ideologies can coexist. What is happening is not only bad; it is evil, in all its inane, stupid, lack of glory.
Translated by the wonderful Sophia McDougall, edited by the tenebrous Lee Harris, published by the adventurous @torbooks , a labour of love from us all.
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