🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
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This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
A new massacre .
An Israeli strike targeted a residential apartment while its occupants were asleep, wiping out an entire family. A mother and her five children were killed in an instant, turning their home into the scene of yet another tragedy in the ongoing series of attacks
In Congo, women and little girls are being r*ped infront of their families. Nearly 10k cases of r*pe in just two months with children accounting for 35%-45% of those cases. Once again, in genocides waged by males, women and little children will always suffer the most.
@wattpadmenfess_ hdh kl plot utamanya ada kaitan dgn unsurnya, ya jgn jd tempelan aja. kl gak, ya gk masalah. toh cm minjem kata politik doang. politik kan luazzzssh. semoga bisa dipahami.
@wattpadmenfess_ cari pemahaman dasar dulu jg soal komunis, sosialis, imperialisme, feodal kl blm. knp merasa perlu? krn bisa memperkuat cerita yg berlatar politik. dikemasnya kl sering baca dan memahami jd bisa luas. gk di situ2 saja dan lebih tepatnya tidak mengglorifikasi.
My gosh.
Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians.
Today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi, of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — which also organized Gaza screenings of the matches.
So Israel targeted and murdered a guy for organising screenings of the World Cup for displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
How is Israel still allowed to compete in the World Cup?
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.