Yes, and? (Sorry, but I’m not seeing the point you’re making with that.)
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Matthew Kirschenbaum
Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming. Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia— —but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here. Rudeness will get you blocked.
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WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
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Ugh. I saw this. Whatever vanishing interest I had in 40k had, well, vanished. (I’m a terrain hog as I think you know. I really do want dioramas with dice.The nice thing about playing gunpowder games is that any line of sight arguments can quickly be resolved with, “oh well, I guess there’s smoke.”)
As long as the personalism extends to some 271 very key individuals, no, it’s not.
Greg SargentTrump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
It operates in the same registers of preciousness around the act of writing (which is imaginative and expressive but also economic and industrial) that leads people to insist “oh no, a machine can never write books people will actually want to read” (until they do, suddenly, all across the markets).
Terry Belanger would begin his Rare Book School classes by physically destroying/dismantling a (well-chosen) old book. This is NOT the same as what Anthropic is doing! But there is a popular culture of preciousness around books that is belied by the material realities of their circumstances. +
Daniel BellingradtAI companies scanning and shredding old and rare books is bad, but you should be aware that shredding new, old, and used books is an established practice of selling and marketing books. In fact, hundreds of millions of books are shredded every year discretly, and legally, in Europe alone. #booksky
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So, so many times this week have I almost posted this. Scott did it for me. Copyright is the root legal scourge that did this. In particular, the US copyright ruling that it's legal to scan a book, IF you destroy it. Yes, AI companies are evil. But copyright rulings mandated the destruction.
scott b. weingartCopyright laws, digital distribution deals, & publishing monopolies are the reason destructive book scanning is putting books at risk. I get why folks are angry at AI companies buying books to destroy them. However, these issues predate them and hang a lot on books being subject to "market forces."