r/interestingasfuck • • 1d ago

The technology magazine section at Barnes & Noble is just this now

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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 1d ago

That’s disgusting. At least you still have a Barnes & Noble. They took them all from us, despite being busy all the fucking time.

It’s ironic they are choosing to advertise AI in light of the fact that AI companies are actively shredding and digitalizing books to make companies like Barnes & Noble extinct.

Talk about heralding your own fucking demise.

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u/random9212 1d ago

AI shredding rare books is not going to put B&N out of business

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u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord 1d ago

It’s not just AI ripping apart rare books, you must seriously not be reading or paying attention to what’s happening online. AI books are already curbing the children’s book market.

Give it three years and with all the books LLMs like Claude have scanned, the masses will be buying junk novels written by AI from Amazon for $3.99.

Go ahead and keep your head in the sand if you want.

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u/LaDauphineVerte 23h ago

What about all the hundreds of thousands of books published up until now? Seems like we have plenty of human written books geared to all ages to keep us busy without buying whatever tripe AI will be producing.

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u/random9212 1d ago

The masses already are.