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  • How does it differentiate an “AI crawler”, from any other crawler? Search engine crawler? Someone monitoring data to offer statistics? Archiving?

    This is not good. They are most likely doing the crawling themselves and them selling the data to the best bidder. That bidder could obviously be openAI for all we know.

    They just know that introducing the sentence “this is anti AI” a lot of people is not going to question anything.




  • Performative nazism, lol.

    Anyway, just for educational purposes. Bookstores usually not just buy books in bulk and hope not to go bankrupt for a bad purchase. They do not take all the risk. When books are bought by a bookstore contracts are made, usually the store pay the publisher after a set amount of time, and if books are not sold, they return the books to the publisher. Contract between publisher and author tend to imply a percentage of sells, so if that books were not sold author won’t see the money either.

    In this case if books are burn by a mob, the bookstore might just not be able to pay the publisher, so the publisher won’t be able to pay the author.

    Not to even begin with editions and batches. A bookstore won’t buy all the books they pretend to sell on a single batch, they will be buying by batches. If at some point they get raided they just will stop trying to buy more batches. Same fron publisher perspective with editions. They will print out more editions depending on the sales. If a book is not being sold, because it’s being burned, they won’t print more editions. No more editions = no money to author either.





  • Google CO2 emissions were 1.5 MTo in 2010. By 2018 they were 13 MTo. In 2023 they were 14 MTo.

    I’m sorry but there’s more to the story that what’s being told in the article. For starters any dataset that takes 2019/2020 as their base line is skewed, we all know what happened that year.

    And, on the other hand, Google emissions increased by almost a 1000% in ten years before AI.

    Truth is more important than that agenda or the dogma. That article does the wild assumption that a big share of the increase in electricity usage is because AI. It may be, or it may not be, but the article presents zero evidences for that claim. And data in hand we know that google can use a ton of electricity without AI. So the impact of AI may or may not be as big as portrayed by the article. And it also disregards completely the massive increases in google emissions before 2019.