Daily Shaarli
August 5, 2026
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale
Do you want to go "aaaaa!!!" while eating breakfast, experiencing profound horror at an incomprehensible scale?
This one. Read it.
Content warning for industrial scale farming & food ethics, food guilt, meat as food, and the author's wrestlings with vegetarianism.
A pile of book recommendations, podcasts, papers, and other educational goodness.