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ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

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a bit of completely original journalism based on reader tips, thank you

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[+] Moonrise2473@feddit.it -7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is that otherwise the ai companies would just pirate the stuff and use it anyway

Take the pocket change is better than nothing

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DYK about what happens when you boil a pot of crab-frog mutant hybrids of varying degrees of crab and frog nature? The hybrids with a higher frog-nature quotient (FQ) don't notice the pot's temperature increasing. The ones with low FQ notice and try to jump out of the pot, but those with high crab-nature quotient (CQ) grab them as they try to jump out of the pot, dooming the hybrids to a their boiled fate.

You exhibit both high CQ and FQ yet are dumber than either a crab or a frog. Curious!