If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure
But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially...
" #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)
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