#tormentnexus — Public Fediverse posts
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Having recently read Vernor Vinge's _Rainbows End_, where a significant part of the plot is tech companies digitizing and destroying physical books to feed the text into online repositories for AI-assisted research, seeing this story going around has a very "torment nexus" feel to it.
"AI companies - or their intermediaries, shielded by NDAs - are systematically buying physical books from secondhand markets, slicing off their spines for high-speed scanning, and pulping the originals."