Consider how, up til now, if you couldn't find a book, you just didn't have that book. It was not available to you.
Now, if you search for a book, odds are you'll get a thousand shitty genAI regurgitations of that book, weird sketchy print on demand listings, that book remixed and digested.
Now, if you search for a book, odds are you'll get a thousand shitty genAI regurgitations of that book, weird sketchy print on demand listings, that book remixed and digested.
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Now, if a person tries to pirate any given book, there's no certainty they'll get that book and not some abomination birthed out of the regurgitated slop of every book ever written.
But, suppose any of it actually survives more than 50 years.
Historians will find a weird situation of being inundated with absolute *actual* garbage.
They'll find every possible version of accounts of every event, the refuse of long-forgotten bot farm propaganda.
But this era will be a Pacific garbage patch of absolute, total meaningless. Finding any meaning it will be more impossible than any archeological dig ever done.
Every single human artwork, drowned in a bottomless lake of raw genAI sewage and garbage.
Lake Karachay was for a while the most polluted body of water on earth, a dumping site for ungodly quantities of nuclear waste. A literal Chernobyl of a lake.
It was remediated by literally filling it with concrete, so the sediment couldn't blow across Eurasia
I'm gonna watch the people in power turn the world into a state of tech that preceded my life.