Well duh. Also real authors are flooding Amazon with crap too. Have people not been paying attention?

How many batteries are failing? My LCD battery is still working great. I never leave it plugged in, managing battery health helps a lot.

Can they please give me an example of a rare book?

I keep thinking there might be ones that are considered somewhat rare, but that is so relative. Its not like the real rare boom market isn’t there. I was looking at a couple books to buy that are considered rare, although they are public domain. They aren’t cheap maybe 2 to 3 hundred each, but I do have a choice of nearly 5 different printings to choose from, meaning if I buy one they dont go away entirely.

Also, who are the booksellers? Does this mean they can start pushing prices up for these purchases? Surely if AI companies are buying all the rare books they would begin to price them accordingly.

Also, for the rare books, are people trying to buy them to preserve them?

Name one “rare” book. Same articles never an evidence of what’s rare.

Exactly what is valuable?

Edit: love the downvotes, yet zero proof there is a rare book involved. We have had people look this up and post to Lemmy, no rare books found.

But hey facts dont matter right?

Wait: they are citing linkedin posts?

LinkedIn: go fuck yourself. If you are stupid enough to willingly participate in the Microsoft data harvestor that pretends its a business site, you are a moron.

Sales pitches?

Conference shills?

All of this was untrustworthy already. AI changed nothing here.

Aaaand its gone.

Where am I moving to?

Whats the point of this? Yes things were cheaper in the past.

It might be worth noting that coca colas profits were down 55% in 2017, lots of people were quitting soda at that time. Hence the sale.

I think most people know, but Luanti is more of a minecraft type voxel engine with a game launcher at this point.

From there you can play several variations of voxel type games and manage them.

I say that because if people think its just Minetest with a new name, that isn’t quite accurate.

Usenet is more or less dead. From thousands of servers to just a couple of free real Usenet servers and 60 or so corporate ones.

Its nice that there are a couple of free text only ones left, but the days of all universities and ISPs and anyone else sharing are long gone.

This is stupid. The choice would be don’t buy sony.

Well yeah. Of course it would, given the examples they are talking about.

It makes sense right? You have a computer, you can program it to do things. I have programmed mine to scrape data or examine websites, and even in some cases to pull entire directories down.

Now we have an agent do that. In other words a programmed computer tool that is acting on someones behalf using natural language as the question. Note the example given is an AI is looking across as many websites as it can for a review. Or maybe instructions to put something together. Or maybe a list of the highest peaks in the world with the least snowfall. Who knows, but that is endless.

So this “traffic” is still human driven. Its just using a computer to do the work. I think that changes the perspective a little bit. It is all human intention driven.

Also, all traffic by http plus every other request is still human, so that is a bit misleading.

Interestingly, its not like we havent been here before if you look at traffic. The syncing of usenet for a period of time was the largest user of all traffic. So all computer connections, much, much less humans.

Most traffic today is video, then gaming, than music, financial, screen sharing, p2p, and AI makes up a tiny portion. It just is making a huge number of requests for HTTP, but it is growing, and fast.

This is neither pro AI, nor anti AI. I am just trying to examine the landscape instead of the over simplistic headline that really is about Cloudflares business model.

What a waste of time. They are good games, revisit them anytime you want.

There is nothing that needs to be done.