- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.
ISBNdb notes that “print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination”.
“Millions of the most valuable books have never been digitised. They exist only in physical form, scattered across library shelves, used bookstores, and out-of-print catalogues. We get them to you at scale.”
I really hope the AI bubble pops soon and takes at least some of these stupid companies with it. They’ve been operating at a GIANT loss for years at this point, how much longer will this go on?
Be careful, because we will all pay the price when the bubble pops. It won’t be just the CEOs paying the bill, it will be governments and people.
Depends on how much power the financiers have to fabricate capital from debt. In modern economics that’s not necessarily a limitation. I do hope it will be tho.
The way I see the situation is that every single AI company can clearly see the massive wall they are speeding ever faster towards, they see it and can also see that it is a massive wall, thick and sturdy.
There is however one thing that keeps them pushing the accelerator down hard against the floor, the delusion that they alone are smart enough to find the prefect weakpoint where they can smash through to the promised land of massive promises, while everyone else is just flattened against the wall.
It is extreme narcissism combined with yes men powering this shit.
i think they are just making sure they arnt holding the bag. thats why i keep seing new AI startups popping up.
Nevermind that when this bubble pops, the US govt will give them all the money they need from our taxes.
Nah, just Musk. The US Government will bail out Grok and let the others fail.
“the delusion that they alone is smart enough”
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It very weird when an otherwise logical comment has such a dumb error.
Thank you, you are quite correct, I will update the post, I remember being rather tired when typing that (:
Investors are starting to notice that it’s all smoke and mirrors in terms of the profits. I am reasonably sure it will pop this year. I will be utterly shocked if it doesn’t pop by the end of next year. It’s just so comically and obviously unsustainable.
This is gonna go down as the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time, I swear.
I dunno, the GameStop Bros are still waiting for MOASS. So I’d say the wealthy have more ways to keep the plates spinning than we wish they did.
Corps don’t have to register to people anymore. Just as an example of how corrupt and well stocked these plate spinning rich bastards are
At least GameStop is profitable though.
I like the plate spinning analogy. I think these guys have SO much money that they do have a few tricks up their sleeve to keep investors going.
I think once they land a few enterprise level fish hard, it will keep the plates spinning a good bit longer.