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kruncktoday at 2:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

In a society that values science and knowledge, preservation of knowledge - and no, slurping text up into an LLM is not preservation - is more important than profits.

These companies are regressive book burners.


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teknetoday at 2:52 PM

You know, I'm pretty sure post-slurping the text is still there...

03284782470today at 3:16 PM

Burn them at the stake! Grab your pitchforks!

genxytoday at 2:53 PM

I love it. Literally burning down civilization to generate losses from slop. This reminds me of the Simpsons Halloween episode where Homer gets a taste for his own flesh and eats himself to death.

Maybe the Library of Alexandria didn't burn, it was digested.

The market has solved the what do with excess knowledge problem.