We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
17 points by alcides
17 points by alcides
So, with AI companies so desperate for new content... what's the over/under on handwritten notebooks and journals to AI companies in a few years? Did I accidentally write myself a retirement plan?
KRAZAM did a funny, if dark, take on this idea https://youtu.be/IU4ByUbDKNc?is=KqEmJSoOJZEKT40S
Did I accidentally write myself a retirement plan?
Probably not. Whoever likes buying books and writings at estate sales is proper hosed tho.
I wonder how legal putting an AirTag in a shipped product is.
The authorities should be doing this, not independent media.
Sometimes investigative journalists break the law to blow the lid off something even worse. In this case, I think it's a good thing they did. What these companies are doing ought to be illegal.
I am 100% convinced that if you buy some items you are not breaking any laws by disposing of them as you see fit.
As long as the book pulping process doesn't release any harmful chemicals, the authorities have no cause to investigate.
This entire process is arguably unethical and can cause long-term harms to society, but it is not illegal.
Yeah that's an interesting question, because on some level it's not that different from a tracking number.
Putting an airtag isn't noticeably different from just stalking the receiver so I think it's legal.
In many regions, stalking the receiver is illegal (and criminal!) I agree with the premise, but I take the opposite conclusion.
Yeah it's definitely the kinda thing you want to check the laws for ahead of time.
The authorities have been captured by tech oligarchs. The American State Apparatus is actively complicit.
Kinda like Vernor Vinge predicted in Rainbows End
For those who haven't read the book, one scene focuses on the efforts to digitize the contents of a university library. To speed up the process, books are simply hurled into a huge chipper and computer vision reads the contents in the ensuing cyclone of fragments.
The key difference is that the contents of the books is digitally preserved, not simply subsumed into an infinite matrix of weights.