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 @bsh @dbattistella
I destroyed about 600 books death cleaning my oldies place.
Sad though it is, book destruction happens all the time.
DB 🌱💦
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