PerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksgardinerbryant.comexternal-linkmessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksgardinerbryant.comPerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square65linkfedilink
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoExcept this is different. That book burning was due to ideological reasons. This one is due to pure greed and disregard for collective knowledge
minus-squareAsetru@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoSo you’re arguing that capitalism and its greed are not an ideology?
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoEven really evil people respect knowledge. These aren’t people.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoYou’re right, it is different, the AI companies are misled into thinking this will generate some sort of profit but the Chinese were just doing it from a place of pure malice.
minus-squareiglou@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoPutting the slightest chance of profits over the conservation of rare books is also pure malice in my book. With a layer of makeup.
Except this is different. That book burning was due to ideological reasons. This one is due to pure greed and disregard for collective knowledge
So you’re arguing that capitalism and its greed are not an ideology?
Even really evil people respect knowledge.
These aren’t people.
You’re right, it is different, the AI companies are misled into thinking this will generate some sort of profit but the Chinese were just doing it from a place of pure malice.
Putting the slightest chance of profits over the conservation of rare books is also pure malice in my book. With a layer of makeup.