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AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Strip-mining the world of old books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260723-ai-vendors-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot - podcast

time: 8 min 42 sec

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I've started buying used textbooks and guidebooks because Google search is shitting the bed unbelievably badly and search results are usually SEO AI Slop and now tech companies are taking that away from me!?

If you take all my access to knowledge away I am going to start burning down datacenters. That is how this works.