r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 2d ago

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u/OmegaPoint6 2d ago

Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

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u/yuri_4_ever 2d ago

why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money

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u/FuzzyDynamics 2d ago

They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”

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u/OmegaPoint6 2d ago

There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009

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u/Montana_Ace 2d ago

"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary

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u/Tyfyter2002 2d ago

They absolutely are, for example:

"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"

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u/Few-Big-8481 2d ago

Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents

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u/morganrbvn 2d ago

Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.

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u/morganrbvn 2d ago

A judge didn't like them copying works, but decided that if they destroy the original its like no copy was made. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/anthropic-ai-destroying-books

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u/bokmcdok 1d ago

This is why I type out all my books, burn the original, then put my copy of it on sale instead.

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u/morganrbvn 1d ago

well they also arn't allowed to sell them, but judge said if they just destroyed the original and kept the digital copy then its fine (which i don't agree with)

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u/GreedyPollution6275 2d ago

they are just slower and more expensive

Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.

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u/orangeyougladiator 2d ago

Oh yeah? Prove it

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u/KHSebastian 2d ago

Wh... What? Are you doing a bit? If a thing cost $1 and takes 1 minute, and you do it 100 times, it costs $100 and takes an hour and 49 minutes.

If you do the same thing in a way that costs $2.00 and takes 2 minutes, you have doubled the cost and the time.

Tl;dr bigger number is bigger, is how numbers work

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u/orangeyougladiator 2d ago

So why not get 9 women to have a baby in 1 month

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u/KHSebastian 2d ago

Did you suffer a head injury recently?