2026-07-30 11:59 UTC
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-07-30 15:29
@overholt@glammr.us Oh, I’d like to suggest that it’s much more than simply feeling a knife in the gut. This is book burning 2.0 We don’t know what AI does to, and with the content it ingests. A consolidates control over information into the hands of the few. The value of the book was to broadly disseminate information. The value of AI to psychopaths is to consolidate control over information.
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party 2026-07-30 13:26
@overholt@glammr.us It's also short-sighted. We cannot conceive of a massive interruption to our access to technology? It could happen in so many ways.
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@bici@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 15:42
@overholt@glammr.us when will they be destroying the papyri from ancient Egypt? The Scrolls?
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@foolishowl@social.coop 2026-07-30 15:46
@overholt@glammr.us I have a lot of ebooks around, but I've occasionally made a point of buying physical books, in part because digital data is so vulnerable. Even the DRM-free epub files are vulnerable to the decay of storage media with short lifespans. The mass destruction of physical books seems like an intentional threat. People talk about this being the result of a grotesque judicial interpretation of copyright law, but I don't think "AI" companies care about law that much. They seem to violate laws pretty frequently. This looks to me like a deliberate act of violence. They actually intend to destroy physical books.
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@bregt_lameris@mastodon.online 2026-07-30 15:57
@overholt@glammr.us never, ever, ever destroy your starting material after duplicaten. Rule nr 1
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@Janet_52square@sunny.garden 2026-07-30 16:22
@overholt@glammr.us Yeah pull out the plug in the library, the lights go out. Pull the plug on AI and everything is lost - migration is a myth.
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@aehoogestraat@glammr.us 2026-07-30 16:29
@overholt@glammr.us The differences I see between older fiction paperbacks and their ebooks is enough to make me question any digital version of an older print book. It even happens with movies. I don't trust the information to not be manipulated anymore.
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@lcwheeler@ecoevo.social 2026-07-30 16:43
@overholt@glammr.us The idea that the contents of a book being ingested by a probabilistic language model (i.e. more or less an autocorrect with a shit ton of parameters) somehow represents the knowledge entering the "intellectual space" is so infuriatingly ludicrous. Knowledge from books enters an intellectual space when a human with genuine intelligence reads it and thinks about it. The people who run these "AI" companies are just the dumbest, most obtuse jags on the planet.
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@eestileib@tech.lgbt 2026-07-30 16:53
@overholt@glammr.us Indeed, that quotation you pasted above infuriates me. It's the same energy as saying "why would you ever want to go see a statue when you can just look at pictures of it?" It's the same energy as "yes we killed your grandma but look she's in datacenter heaven and we have a chatbot of her. Same same, right?"
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@robertvonherz@mastodon.online 2026-08-02 12:48
@overholt@glammr.us I felt the same when weeks ago I was reading articles/news that German and Austria (maybe more countries are involved) so called "Antiquariats" having weird demands of rare books from around the world. I was like shocked. https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/ki-firmen-antiquarische-buecher-100.html #KI #AI #IA #books