It’s not the cameras that are the problem, however, it’s the companies behind them that I take issue with. It’s one thing to be spied on by a camera, it’s another thing when data collected from that camera feed is then sold to anyone who is buying. That’s what I have a problem with. The cameras themselves aren’t the issue.

“I personally have mixed feelings about all of this,” one small bookseller told tech news website 404 Media last week.

The bookseller explained that in April, he suddenly went from selling around 20 books per week to hundreds — including obscure and out-of-print works.

“It benefits me financially as well as by clearing out old inventory that is otherwise unlikely to sell,” he said. “I’ve been well suited for these sales with inventory from overseas and foreign language books. On the other hand, I don’t like the end-use, and I don’t like that uncommon books are being pulped.”

Then stop selling rare and out of print books to an AI company, you fucking doorknob.

Greed knows no bounds.

Like this: 💆

Honestly I don’t understand how they’re allowed to be sold in the US either, given how rigid the safety standards are.

Same. All I did was report ads as spam. But apparently that’s “report abuse”.

Honestly I don’t know why they even bother, when dodging reddit bans is the easiest thing in the world to pull off. Just create a new account with a different email address (or don’t enter an email at all). Bam, ban dodged.