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AI firms reportedly destroy antique books after ingesting content for model training

AI companies are reportedly acquiring antique books, extracting their content to train models, and then destroying the physical copies. This practice raises concerns about the monetization of human existence and the potential for cognitive and social dependency on manipulated artificial forms. AI

RANK_REASON The item describes a practice that is not directly related to AI development or deployment, but rather a speculative or anecdotal claim about AI companies' actions with books.

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AI firms reportedly destroy antique books after ingesting content for model training

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    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 existen

    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 an manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like …