I guess the next step is picking specific people to memorize specific books and pass that knowledge down to an assistant/acolyte who will keep the memories alive. Rinse and repeat. Fahrenheit 451 anybody?
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the AI ran out of Reddit slop material to scan, because reddit has been purging alot of content/accounts even suspected of spamming, so they go for physical books now.
gigo.
books are better sources imho.
Fahrenheit 451 ass
Getting rid of physical copies of books so we can be monthly subscription slaves, disgusting
It's worse than that. I'm sure they're getting wet dreams about eradicating as many books as possible so that they can finally sell AI slop books at a premium price, claiming that will be "the last way to get something in [author] style!".
I'm rather thinking that hey want to make their slop machines the single source of truth. Much easier to get control over information, when all information is located in your own house.
I hate this timeline... It's things like this that make me hope we actually do live in a simulation, and the devs are about to release a major bug fix...
Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’
Not only that, of course, but easily edited. It's a "mandala effect" generator. AKA modern gaslighting. They name the thing, point to legitimate examples, then abuse our new "understanding" to cover their crimes. 1984 indeed.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia
"mandala" effect
You sure you remember that name correctly?
Dang it, they changed it again!
I love where the headline cuts of:
knowledge is permanent - ly monopolized on private servers
If you read the blog post, they don't provide help or guidance for regular bookworms on how to scan. No information about what they expect.
Also, flatbed scanning a whole book takes many hours. It's one page at a time, line up each page, press the book flat and scan, for hundreds of pages.
You'd likely need to buy, or have access to a book scanner. Which is fine, there are cheap models, but who knows if that would work for them? They don't say. It doesn't seem like they're expecting help from you or me.
Libraries quite often have book scanners.
I was wondering how feasible this is for an average Joe. My assumption was not very, thank you for confirming.
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