A quote warns AI training may be destroying the original books it learns from
mtizard · x · 2026-07-29
A quote argues that this may be the first civilization willing to destroy original books in order to teach machines what they contained. The attached photos show shelves of old books, reinforcing the tension between preservation and model training.
It is less a technical claim than a sharp cultural critique of AI training practices and the trade-off between digitizing knowledge and damaging physical originals.
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