@tuukka_kuru Valitettavasti Afrikkalaisten määrä on suuresti liioiteltu, esimerkiksi Kongossa viimeinen laskelma on tehty 90-luvulla, ja sen jälkeen väkiluku on noussut sadalla miljoonalla.
Tuntuu hatusta vedetyldä heidän luvut.
@corvinbot@cirnosad No shit sherlock
But yes extremely correct, if you have extended family and local community hold onto it and maintain it at all costs.
@ChoochSkookum Someone else said it better, but it is like the dodo or Steller's sea cow
They have no natural immunity to it and all their learned habits just pull them deeper into it
@cirnosad Acquire livestock, traditional and hardy breeds.
Modern dairy cows are entirely unprepared for what is to come. They produce tons of milk at the expense of intelligence, independence and survivability.
@bvhearts@SteelCityClaire Or you are doing something and someone shouts: NOT LIKE THAT!
And then they proceed to show you a method that is only marginally different from yours with no advantage whatsoever
Henry Ford tried to warn Americans about Usury. He sold his cars at 0% interest to customers. All you had to do was pay back the sticker price. Now look at the American housing market today. It embraced usury and young people can no longer afford homes.
@helicitywatches@Balqahiddir They are quite literally legally mandated by the United States of America to destroy the physical copy, and also to not publish the scans online.
If they publish them they are violating copyright law, and that is also a crime if you were not aware.
@martianwyrdlord Copyright and patent law never made sense and I don't think there's good evidence supporting the idea that they lead to more useful work.
@bamboo_master_m@jecsben@martianwyrdlord I'd argue copyright law is.
Or at least the modern version of it that leads to conclusions like this, or 'Author's life plus 70 years'.
It is inarguably bad that sites like Anna's Archive are not legally allowed to distribute the wealth of human knowledge for free to everyone.
@jecsben@martianwyrdlord Facebook court case concluded that they were not allowed to train their LLM on pirated content, because they were "duplicating" a PDF they downloaded online.
Thus they were infringing copyright law by "copying" online content and "creating a copy" on their LLM
@jecsben@martianwyrdlord Because they are legally required to ensure that only "one" copy exists, either physically as the book or as part of the LLM's training data. As in they legally cannot "duplicate" a book as that would be against copyright law.
Retarded? Absolutely.
@BronzeAgeRouter Some people say that they have had photorealistic image generation/creation since that one school massacre that is suspiciously controversial.
The one with the hook and the sand, allegedly it was used for that.
🦔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."
My Take
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🤗