Sinofsky Defends AI Training on Discarded Books
Steven Sinofsky claims landfilling books is worse than using them for AI.
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Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft executive, argues that hundreds of thousands of tons of obscure and outdated books are routinely pulped or sent to landfills each year. He frames AI training on such discarded material as preferable to waste. In related commentary, Tanishq Mathew Abraham criticizes an anti-AI narrative around the Anthropic case, stating that book scanning plus destruction is not a valid objection. He identifies the judge who barred scanning without destruction as the key issue rather than the AI company.
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Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.@iScienceLuvrYet another anti-AI psyop is destroying the minds of normies. There are many good reasons to disagree with Anthropic. Book scanning+destruction is not one of them. The real villain is the judge who didn't allow just scanning and required book destruction.
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TK Tim Kindberg@timkindberg@WKCosmo Nice whataboutery. How do you know which books Anthropic is shredding? Outlying Working Class Fascist Book Hater.
JV Joshua Val Marner@MarnerJoshua@WKCosmo You’re retarded if you can’t see the problem here. It’s never a one-way street. Demand feeds back into supply
PP Pale Pen15@PalePen15@botulismsundae @WKCosmo @OMoLean If you’re retarded and don’t know how to find things that’s true yeah
BS Barrett Sheridan@bawisher@WKCosmo @micsolana You’re doing god’s work
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