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Im a special collections archivist. This IS as bad as you think it is.
They’re cutting up books to train ai. THEYRE RUINING RARE BOOKS TO TRAIN FUCKING AI!
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Anonymous 22h

People aren’t scared enough of the disappearance or heavy filtering/surveillance of our media. It’s concerning.

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Anonymous 21h

We need to buy more books to keep the book industry alive and healthy

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Anonymous 21h

we actually live in the stupidest timeline

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Anonymous 21h

This is terrifying. I was hoping it wasn’t true 😭😭 we’re turning into the world of Cinder

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Anonymous 18h

It’s actually worse. They’re could JUST scan the books to train AI. They’re destroying the books afterwards (completely unnecessary) because they want us using AI and platforms that use AI more.

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Anonymous 12h

we in the fahrenheit 451 timeline

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Anonymous 9h

Yep. And they’re taking so many vendors out of business. Vendors that we rely on to acquire rare texts. Vendors that employ people. A whole industry might just disappear in a few more years of this. It’s like deforestation, but of used books.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 18h

And like every dystopian book ever

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