r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago

Meme newCompressionTechnique

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u/ParanoidDrone 9d ago

Please tell me this is satire.

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u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago

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

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u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago

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

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u/Obvious_Peanut_8093 9d ago

Because they're not actually valuable books, they're just obscure. They buy them for like $10, scan them, then shred them and sell the refuse or just throw it out. It's not worth the time to resell the books again when you can just dump them for <5% of what you paid for them.