PerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksgardinerbryant.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1476arrow-down111cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1465arrow-down1external-linkAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksgardinerbryant.comPerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square59fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·20 hours agoWelcome to capitalism…
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·20 hours agohttps://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/china-burning-book-censorship-online-outrage/ Welcome to humanity
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·20 hours 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-up1·4 hours agoSo you’re arguing that capitalism and its greed are not an ideology?
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 hours agoEven really evil people respect knowledge. These aren’t people.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 hours 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-up1·edit-24 hours agoPutting the slightest chance of profits over the conservation of rare books is also pure malice in my book. With a layer of makeup.
Welcome to capitalism…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/china-burning-book-censorship-online-outrage/
Welcome to humanity
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.