Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the AI business model.
And here's how they're pitching their slop to us.
Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."
A.I. slop makes it harder for authors and original content creators to stay profitable by depriving them of web traffic, and it floods the zone with slop that makes it harder for authors of original works to stand out. We lose the equivalent of many libraries when original authors are forced to quit and stop writing.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/25/google-is-cannibalizing-the-web-to-feed-ai/5244641
Anthropic also purposely destroyed millions of books after scanning them to train it's A.I.
@adamsaidsomething @dbattistella it would be better if search engines develop some functionality to distinguish between the #AI generated content and human creation. Or a license would be developed for it, so it would be clear a content is creation of humans or not.
Regarding the #Anthropic and the scanning the books, I think they could use nondestructive cameras like google and archives did. However unfortunately even the libraries also throwing away millions of books as well.
Struggling to keep up with the increasing digitization of academia, libraries are purging older volumes to make way for study spaces and coffee shops. The act is a radical shift from when the value of a library was measured by the scope of its books.
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I destroyed about 600 books death cleaning my oldies place.
Sad though it is, book destruction happens all the time.
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