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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

Also, "AI is bad because copyright" style thinking can't condemn the destruction of old books to feed the LLM's

If they bought the books, and copyright law says they can train on them, on that account there's nothing wrong with destroying them

But if your concern is what they're doing to the shared commons of knowledge to which all humans lay a rightful moral claim, then of course it's horrific

Those books could have been read by countless humans