Solarbird 

I literally read this short story in ... probably Asimov's SF, probably in the 1990s. Could've been Analog.

Seriously, though - this was, like, the entire plot. Exactly this. EXACTLY this.

From https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books :

Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model — and new documents suggest that it was well aware of just how bad it would look if anyone found out.

#AI #books #theft #LLM #LLMs #Anthropic #Claude

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

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Show threadSolarbird Feb 1
Honest to shit the rate of writing written as warning turning into writing-as-instruction manual is really starting to fuck with my head right here.
Show threadSolarbird Feb 1

Kinda wish these fuckers would, idk, watch The Black Hole and ride a giant spaceship into an event horizon right about now

that'd be good

Show threadMan aging with madnessFeb 1

"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus."

@moira

Show threadIngvarFeb 1

@moira It's certainly an element in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End".

Shovelling books through shredders, scanning the fragments coming out and then recombining using sequence assemble techniques from DNA studies.

Show threadSolarbird Feb 1
@vatine I've also read that, and liked it, but much later. But I don't think I'm conflating stories. For one thing, I remember there was an ending.
Show threadSolarbird Feb 1

@vatine But that is exactly the kind of thing, yep.

Maybe it was an earlier Vinge story.

Show threadIngvarFeb 1
@moira It is ENTIRELY possible that there was a similar thing in a short story, earlier (possibly even by Vinge).
Show threadSolarbird Feb 1

@vatine Yeah, I went and checked, he had his first short story _collection_ in like 1989, so he'd been writing for a while. Totally could've been one of his.

I mean, I like his work and I remembered this story and those facts do tend to be pretty strongly associated with each other.

Also having read it in the 90s doesn't mean it was published in the 90s, I have a long-established habit of reading a lot of old stuff. E.g. currently finishing up a 1931 Peter Wimsey detective novel. I don't really care about the mystery in this one, but I have been enjoying between-wars Scotland.

(Minus the surprise "wow, that came out of fucking _nowhere_" N-word drop mid book. Not expecting that one holy shit. Which is of course the problem.)

Show threadRoss of OttawaFeb 1
@vatine @moira came here to point that out too. Reading Rainbow's End 20yrs ago was like a preview of these current times.
Show threadMidgePhotoFeb 1
@moira and in one of Vernor Vinge's (lesser) #SciFi novels.
Fast Times at Fairmont High.
The #ZonesOfThought novels were and remain much better.
Show threadSolarbird Feb 1
@Photo55 Never read Fairmont High. I liked the Across Realtime collection, and A Fire Upon the Deep was just a delight through and through.
Show threadMidgePhotoFeb 1
@moira A Deepness in the Sky is pretty good also.
The third one has some very good bits, more Tines, but falls a bit short.