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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

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  1. panny · · focus · HN ↗
    A dark age will come. AI shredders destroy all the books then hallucinate what they once contained.
    1. aprilthird2021 · · focus · HN ↗
      I'm the opposite of an AI doomer but this is actually scary to me. Once knowledge is hollowed out like this how can we get it back?
      1. mistercheph · · focus · HN ↗
        This is unironically part of their business plan: don't just regurgitate the world's information but also destroy all other sources of information.
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