Satire: I Destroy Antique Books After Scanning Them for AI
9woc · hn · 2026-08-29
A satirical piece from McSweeney's features a first-person account of a worker whose job is to destroy antique books after they are scanned for training an AI platform, critiquing the trade-off between cultural heritage and technological progress.
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