WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
Recalling when izzzyzzz made a video about how kids don’t have their own online spaces like they used to and a bunch of weirdos tried pretending she was being inappropriate for pointing it out
It's frankly dystopian how the tech companies started a loneliness epidemic by isolating people on their devices and is now selling us devices they falsely claim will cure that loneliness.
I don't know how to explain to people that it's important to read books, important to keep the mind active through constant learning, important to spend time with real humans. Avoid AI companions, make your own art, don't let them turn you into an unthinking shell of a person.