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cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649

As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.

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[–] 5318008@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Similar: having characteristics in common.

Looking similar does mean that two things are similar. You could have tried to make your point in a variety of ways, but you chose the way that can be countered by simply understanding English.

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[–] quakki@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Okay I'll give you a hint. The bad thing about the nazis burning books wasn't that they were destroying physical copies of books. I'll give you a few keywords intent, selection, political control

[–] 5318008@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Why be condescending now?

You already fucked up the point you were making. By all means, insult people's intelligence at the start of the conversation, before you fuck up. Doing it at the same time as fucking up looks bad... but insults after you fuck up looks even worse.