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Wow so fuck college students but machines deserve free textbooks?
Fuck this society.
Just tell your campus book store that you self-identify as AI. FREE BOOKS!
But you aren't an oligarch of the fascist dictatorship, so you have no rights.
Bold of you to assume I'm not a fascist oligarch. Mebbe I am?
The fuck are you doing on fedi then? Go exploit more people or something
I tried once. I'm hardwired with compassion and a strong moral and ethical framework.
Last time I tried so hard at employee wage theft and I ended up giving my guys a bonus and the afternoon off. I'm just not cut-out for fascist oligarchy.
It's ok buddy. After all, you're just a dog that drinks coffee.
It’s only ok if you destroy the books in the process. Eating the pages as you read them is the most convenient way. So free food AND free books!
Just download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.
I'm training a neural network. It's just that the neural network is 1 layer with zero data reduction -so it's only capable of printing the text exactly as the source material on my computer! AI finally works!
Just download the books and say its for your neural network project
just happens your also the project
machine learning = good
human learning = bad
actually Donnie's friends prefer to fuck high school students
Countless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia. 💀
~~machines~~ * big Tech Corps
You don't have libraries in the schools there in the USA? (It is a question, not sarcasm or something)
We do. The issue is at the college/university level, most courses require specific edition textbooks (they update them every 1-2 years) that the professors assign homework questions out of. You'll be lucky if the school library has a copy more recent than the last 8 years.
Then on top of that, many professors will also use digital 3rd party homework services that are tied to a textbook access code that you only get with a new copy. So unless you pay up you can't do homework and fail the class.
The whole system is fucking bullshit
My university (well, typically the professor) usually made sure there was at least one copy of the current course's text book in the library. Yes, that means there was exactly one copy available for us poor students to share. At least it was put on the "reference" list so no one could take it home - just study it in the library and then put it back on the shelf. I don't know if that's possible now that they are going to digital editions.
it's fine when the theft flows up the pyramid. it's not fine when the theft is us stealing back what was always ours
"I'm going to training ai using this"
Yes, one would expect human intelligence to benefit quite a lot from free access to information.
Become a more common occurrence too. Possibly an effect much stronger than that of AI requiring lots of computation with unpredictable shittiness of the output.