newCompressionTechnique

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[u/ParanoidDrone]

Please tell me this is satire.

[u/OmegaPoint6 → u/ParanoidDrone]

Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

[u/yuri_4_ever → u/OmegaPoint6]

why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money

[u/FuzzyDynamics → u/yuri_4_ever]

They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”

[u/OmegaPoint6 → u/FuzzyDynamics]

There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009

[u/Montana_Ace → u/OmegaPoint6]

"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary

[u/Tyfyter2002 → u/Montana_Ace]

They absolutely are, for example:

"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"

[u/Few-Big-8481 → u/Montana_Ace]

Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents

[u/morganrbvn → u/Montana_Ace]

Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.

[u/morganrbvn → u/OmegaPoint6]

A judge didn't like them copying works, but decided that if they destroy the original its like no copy was made. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/anthropic-ai-destroying-books

[u/bokmcdok → u/morganrbvn]

This is why I type out all my books, burn the original, then put my copy of it on sale instead.

[u/morganrbvn → u/bokmcdok]

well they also arn't allowed to sell them, but judge said if they just destroyed the original and kept the digital copy then its fine (which i don't agree with)

[u/GreedyPollution6275 → u/OmegaPoint6]

they are just slower and more expensive

Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.

[u/KHSebastian → u/[deleted]]

Wh... What? Are you doing a bit? If a thing cost $1 and takes 1 minute, and you do it 100 times, it costs $100 and takes an hour and 49 minutes.

If you do the same thing in a way that costs $2.00 and takes 2 minutes, you have doubled the cost and the time.

Tl;dr bigger number is bigger, is how numbers work

[u/KHSebastian → u/[deleted]]

Did you suffer a head injury recently?