• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    We built the library. Someone else started charging admission.

    Capitalism working as intended.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    AI companies turned it all into products worth billions.

    AI companies would appreciate you telling them where those products are, because they are almost universally losing money.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    No, no. It’s dumber:

    The library is still open, you can freely enter. But now they’ve put “a guy” in the library to whom you can pay money and they will answer your question with the stuff they “more or less remember”.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
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      4 months ago

      The guy is also standing right next to the computer terminal where you can search for books, and starts telling you everything they think they know about the book you’re looking up, whether you asked or not.