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 (DIR) Post #B9PbytphS7M3yfMgoS by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       When the book-burning by GenAI/LLM companies was revealed, the defences of this were "oh the books aren't rare" and "oh they're only buying books from pulping companies that will be destroyed anyway".Neither of these is true. The AI companies are buying bulk orders of obscure titles from ordinary booksellers:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/15/uk-ireland-booksellers-suspect-ai-companies-bulk-orders-data-acquisitionNone of these are bestsellers, and none of them are checked to see if they are archived anywhere. But they *will* be physically destroyed by the AI companies after sucking out all the info from them.#GenAI #LLM #AI
       
 (DIR) Post #B9Pbyu74PXFWqXUYt6 by CorioPsicologia@mastodon.social
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       @FediThing In Spain they look for minorized and oppressed languages as catalan.Destroying these books is even worst, because they destroy a culture at the same time they take the jobs from these catalan translators