torment matrix, part 23942

[solarbird]

Honest to shit the rate at which writing written as warning is turning into writing-as-instruction manual is really starting to fuck with my head right here:

Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model — and new documents suggest that it was well aware of just how bad it would look if anyone found out.

I literally read this short story in… I think it was Asimov’s? Could’ve been Analog but I think it was Asimov’s. Circa 1992 or something. Don’t remember much of anything about it other than they were training an AI by shredding and destroying library after library and it was a huge deal.

That was it, though. That was the entire plot.

Kinda wish these fuckers would, idk, watch The Black Hole and ride a giant spaceship into an event horizon right about now, don’t you?

i mean

that’d be good

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Comments

[armiphlage]

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge!

[solarbird]

I've also read that, but it's not a short story. I remember this having, for example, an ending specific to it.

I suspect it may've been a Vinge short written before Rainbow's End. I'm told he also used the idea in another novel too, Fast Times at Fairmont High.

[sistawendy]

Send the tech bros to Mars. They already want to go.

[melchar]

Send the tech bros off in an AI-managed spaceship & odds are that we'd never be bothered by either again.

[solarbird]

It'd sure be nice.