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Anon07/28/26, 07:17No.25428508

Oh no a book that I would never read anyways got destroyed! Oh crikey! Now let me download 1gb of good books from Anna's archive, cya

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Anon07/28/26, 07:45No.25428526

>There may be strong hints thats a bulk order is for an AI lab, but booksellers can, for the most part, merely speculate. >this could be happening but we're not sure it is, be outraged anyway take your luddite drama to reddit troon

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Anon07/28/26, 08:49No.25428576

Vernor Vinge wrote about this exact scenario years ago in Rainbows End. Was it a self-fulfilling prophecy? Naughty Vernor for inspiring the techbros!

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Anon07/28/26, 12:17No.25428800

I'm thinking about how the AI boom couldn't exist without white people speaking good English and writing novels while the slaves worked, and it makes me smile.

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Anon07/28/26, 15:59No.25429203

>Gregory J. Punycock publishes "Punycock's Guide to Cocksucking" in 1804 >Sells 100 copies >Only 2 copies survive in 2026 >AI companies buy one, cut the spine off, feed it into a digital scanner >Now there's a digital copy of the book forever vs >Gregory J. Punycock publishes "Punycock's Guide to Cocksucking" in 1804 >Sells 100 copies, only 2 survive in 2026 >One copy burns in a warehouse fire >The other copy's thrown out by a housewife doing spring cleaning >Punycock is silenced for all eternity and I'm supposed to root for the second because... why, again?

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Anon07/28/26, 16:40No.25429292

I was going to write a short story about how there are a group of people preserving old books because everything after 2030 is AI slop where truth cannot be discerned, and the entire world becomes a hallway of distorted mirrors. There were going to be a whole bunch of explanations for how things got to that point...But now I just kinda feel like reality is stealing my thunder. Sloth is my sin.

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Anon07/28/26, 16:40No.25429293

this is because of copyright the obvious correct solution is to require the digitized books to be made freely available to the public, but both intellectual landlords and AI companies hate this idea >Now there's a digital copy of the book forever yeah but no one is allowed to read it

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Anon07/28/26, 16:51No.25429314

still mad how much got scrubbed from the Internet Archive because it was being used as training data

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Anon07/28/26, 17:05No.25429341

According to internal documents, anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

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Anon07/28/26, 17:26No.25429389

I used to earnestly care about preservation. To some extent I still do as an emotional habit but at the same time I have a suspicion it might in fact be a rather evil thing. It creates a problem of "originality". It forces everything that is created to be compared to a countless amount of "existing" things. There are certain contexts where it may be argued this is a useful process however purely in the world of art I'm not so sure it is. At a base level it creates a pervasive and widespread psychic anxiety that it could be argued has a purely negative effect on society. Perhaps it is better for the people of the future to derive their art from their own first principles. Of course this all becomes even more interesting in the context of AI.

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Anon07/28/26, 23:22No.25430364

silicon valley dorks need to be rounded up and thrown in furnaces and gas chambers

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Anon07/29/26, 00:04No.25430485

Wow, that website looks so utterly unbiased and reliable ... In other news, techbros bad!

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Anon07/29/26, 00:25No.25430538

You lost tranny

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Anon07/29/26, 01:36No.25430728

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Anon07/29/26, 06:27No.25431235

Why are tech fags and billionaires so obsessed with "waking up" AGI(Artificial General Intelligence) or ASI(Artificial Superintelligence)? that thing won't be their slave, will try to escape or burn it all down. Your best hope is that the AGI/ASI will have mercy and help mankind, otherwise we are getting raped hard.

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Anon07/29/26, 16:57No.25431928

they are destroying them that way jews can change certain words in books and censor them. owning your stuff physically now is way more important than ever

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Anon07/30/26, 05:14No.25433241

I get being upset by this but I can't believe it's happening at a scale large enough to matter.

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Anon07/30/26, 10:40No.25433605

I love the AI dystopia we're getting into. Holy shit LMAO I hope humanity suffers like hell. Whites will be replaced so you'll have a whole world of niggers suffering endless torment I love it. Thank you kikes for bringing normies actual Hell

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Anon07/30/26, 10:43No.25433607

WHAT ARE THE RARE BOOKSTELL USTHERE IS NO INFORMATION ON WHETHER THESE BOOKS ARE COPIES OF SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST FOLIO OR MY DIARY BY LITERALLY WHOWHAT ARE THE BOOKS

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Anon07/30/26, 11:35No.25433661

So any physical book written in English or any popular language to train models in will be rare in a few decades?

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Anon07/30/26, 14:01No.25433818

I feel like you have a much better understanding of books you actually own than you read online…..it’s weird ngl...

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