00:00We didn't really need any more evidence that AI companies are run by bad guys, but here's some anyway.
00:06They're destroying books by the millions.
00:09Reporting by 404 Media suggests that major AI firms are using third-party middlemen to purchase vast amount of physical
00:18books,
00:18which are then used for training AI and destroyed.
00:21They're using third parties rather than doing it directly in order to avoid negative PR, goes the report.
00:27Well, that's not really worked out, has it?
00:30We don't want it to be known that we're working on this.
00:33AI company Anthropix said in internal planning documents.
00:37The firms that do the work, meanwhile, promise AI firms that your identity, strategy and acquisition targets are never disclosed.
00:45AI companies destroys 2 million books is not a headline that generates sympathy.
00:51No, it sure isn't.
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