TheHolyJelly

@reddit_lies Stupid take. You can follow the law and still be wrong. The first step to fix the law is recognizing its loop holes. This needs to be fixed

BTW, this is being done specifically because it's a legal requirement. The book has to be destroyed otherwise it's considered illegal copying. If you want to be upset, get angry at the rules, not the people following them.

@idnowhatev @RPGILE_APPS @Rainmaker1973 Cause it's cheaper to scan that way. I don't mind if the scans are released publicly, or stored safely, but it appears to just be destroying it and dumping the data into GPUs.

@RPGILE_APPS @Rainmaker1973 Why would they destroy the books after they scanned it? Why not preserve the originals? Looks like they’re going to hoard history away from us.

AI companies are buying large volumes of used, rare, and out-of-print books, scanning them for training data, and in many cases destroying the physical copies afterward. This practice has accelerated as labs seek high-quality, pre-2022 human-written text free of AI-generated content that now saturates much of the open web. The most documented example is Anthropic’s internal effort known as Project Panama. Court filings from copyright litigation revealed that the company acquired millions of physical books from used-book sellers and wholesalers such as Better World Books. Workers used hydraulic cutting machines to slice off the spines, fed the loose pages into industrial high-speed scanners, and then discarded or pulped the remains. An internal planning document described the goal as an effort to destructively scan books at massive scale. A federal judge later ruled that purchasing the books, creating internal digital copies this way, and destroying the originals constituted transformative fair use under U.S. copyright law, relying in part on the first-sale doctrine. Similar activity is now widespread. Specialized brokers, including ISBNdb, openly market bulk acquisition services to AI labs, offering orders ranging from thousands to as many as one million titles. They emphasize older printed books as “structurally clean” training data. Booksellers in the United States and Europe have reported sudden surges in bulk orders for mixed, random selections that include rare and out-of-print volumes. Some of these titles may represent among the last readily available physical copies. While a substantial portion of the books involved would otherwise have been remaindered, recycled, or sent to landfills, the inclusion of uncommon editions has drawn criticism from archivists, collectors, and rare-book dealers who note that gentler, non-destructive scanning methods exist yet are slower and more expensive. The process remains largely quiet because the intermediary services promise anonymity to their AI clients. Public attention has grown mainly through litigation disclosures and reporting by outlets that examined the court records and interviewed booksellers. The practice highlights a practical tension in large-scale AI development: the demand for vast quantities of reliable human text collides with the finite physical supply of older printed works and the cultural value of preserving rare copies.

@GenericProfile4 @AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies No, you're just eternally online. People are great, and there's more good than bad in both left and right. Humans are more alike than you think.

@TheHolyJelly @AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies And all of those "great people" have shown their true colors You might be willing to keep your head in the sand and continue to pretend but others prefer to deal with the reality

Daily reminder that there was literally a reddit community for abortion fetishists.

@hecubian_devil I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you wants politics to solve man's search for meaning and I want politics to deliver a prosperous, safe, free society in which everyone can go find meaning in something other than politics.

@GenericProfile4 @AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies Go out and talk to people. I have many friends on the left who are great people. You form your judgements online, which is usually why it's warped. The majority of people are not absorbed into politics. Most left-wing politicians were all against it.

@TheHolyJelly @AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies The lefts reaction to Charlie Kirk showed that what you think of as the "fringe left" is in fact the majority of the left But "pretending to not understand" etc.

@krassenstein suicidal empathy

These people merely want the best life for themselves and their families, just like everyone on this planet. The fact that so many conservatives and so-called Christians are attacking them is disgusting.

@GenericProfile4 @AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies Again, you are using the fringe left to describe the majority of the left. Most people are just regular people living their lives. Left or right, people are bounded by their humanity. General consensus is against violence, for most of the left and right.

@TheHolyJelly @AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies What happened with Charlie kirk showed that the left is, if anything, worse than how the right describe them

@AtomicErectus @BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies The left and right do the same thing. They use the fringe to describe their opponents. The right tries to label everyone on the left communist, socialist while the left tries to label the right as Nazis. It's unproductive discourse, yet humans are highly susceptible to it.

@BayAreaNewLibs @reddit_lies “Clueless, complacent, or complicit” Every single time!

@HistoryBoomer Independent thinking is becoming rarer every day. Partly because thinking itself is being outsourced to GPUs and influencers. The eroding passion for the book also dismantles our ability to imagine - something that creates our inner voice, and ultimately, who we are.

It's very funny that some right-wing chuds were saying two weeks ago that Nolan's Odyssey was going to suck, partly because it was based on Emily Wilson's woke translation—that none of them had read—but they are now cheering the tattooed lefty lady because she attacked the film!

Peter is not correct about me in this case. I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth. A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine! Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth. This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished. Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude. That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars! Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …

@1234g_overlord @LeoMessiFanZone You obviously have a hatred for Messi in the way you write. You're acting as though Messi can control who makes decisions. Notice how I don't blame Rodri for winning the golden ball, but I blame FIFA. You can argue for Mbappe, my opinion remains that Messi did the most.

@TheHolyJelly @LeoMessiFanZone Fair, but since Messi is used to robbing ppl its fine that he finally gets to taste his own medicine. Also I believe was Mbappe better. Messi did carry 🇦🇷 and his performance was great but also they benefited on the refereeing decision.

🚨WORLD CUP GOLDEN BALL 2026! 😳👀 WhoScored Ratings 🇦🇷 Messi 8.82 (1st) 🇪🇸 Rodri 7.30 (32nd) WhoScored MOTMs 🇦🇷 Messi 6 (1st) 🇪🇸 Rodri 0 Official MOTMs 🇦🇷 Messi 5 (1st) 🇪🇸 Rodri 1 FIFA Power Rankings: Attacking 🇦🇷 Messi 8.28 (3rd) 🇪🇸 Rodri 4.35 (233rd) Creativity 🇦🇷 Messi 8.21 (2nd) 🇪🇸 Rodri 5.92 (80th) Leo Messi should have picked up a third Golden Ball award. But FIFA gifted this to Rodri! 😀🥶

@MrNanobubble @MessiFCWorld Here you go dickhead

@1234g_overlord @LeoMessiFanZone Is he the best midfielder in the world? Yes. Is he the best performing player in the world cup? No. Messi did a better job for Argentina. There is fair arguments that Messi did not deserve the win in 2014, but that doesn't take away from his performance in 2026.

@TheHolyJelly @LeoMessiFanZone Here he is a CDM dont forget. Plus Messi won it 2014 there was no noise crazy how when ther robber is now seen as the victim of a robbery.

@XisbestM @SipsWithSerra This has got to be one of the dumbest post in twitter 😂

@SipsWithSerra Of all the red cards issued in World Cup final history, Argentina have 4/7 of them. This demonstrates what a dirty playing team they are.

BTW in the last 4 world cups Argentina has been the only losing team to even stay on the field while their opponent celebrates. France left while Argentina celebrated in 2022. Where was the media outrage then?

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@1234g_overlord @LeoMessiFanZone Sighh. What a useless argument, I thought you were serious. The golden ball is for the best player in the wc. It is definitely either Messi or Mbappe. Maybe Oyarzabal/Kane/Bellingham. But Rodri? I don't think so.

@TheHolyJelly @LeoMessiFanZone Let's look at the opponents and refereeing

@1234g_overlord @LeoMessiFanZone Rodri no. Messi is a top contender, along with Mbappe. Then it's the others. Messi carried this arg team to the final.

@TheHolyJelly @LeoMessiFanZone So I guess we both agree Messi & Rodri didn't deserve it.

@1234g_overlord @LeoMessiFanZone Golden ball is not by stats. It's voted on by journalist before the final. I think Messi did more for Arg than Rodri. Golden ball is also PR-influenced, so Messi loses there cause of the hate campaings. Rodri was amazing, but Cubarsi and Oyarzabal were better. Mbappe is also one.

@TheHolyJelly @LeoMessiFanZone Oky but did Messi deserve it, if yes then why did Muller not win it 2014 and Mbappe in 2022. Also this awards are based on what exactly stats or. Rodri is not a stat pad player he is a CDM and Spain conceded 1 goal, Rodri was the spine of this Spain team without him...

@1234g_overlord @LeoMessiFanZone I personally think those are not clear-cut decisions and debatable. But I genuinely cannot understand the justification for Rodri. At least oyarzabal. This one is just shocking

@LeoMessiFanZone If we gonna go by stats then Mbappe deserves it plus he faced tougher opps that Your Messi. Also how many did Messi rob? Ballon d'Or robbers: Haaland, Lewandowski, Sjneider, VVD, Iniesta Golden Ball awards robbers: Muller 2014, Mbappe 2022 So yall are just 🤡🤡🤡