#bookstores

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A ‘bananas’ order for 5,000 obscure titles from a bookshop in Galway fuels suspicion (irishtimes.com)

European #bookstores #bookshops #bookstores get mass large online orders for antiquarian #books that could be their death warrant. Brought to you by the miracle that is #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ProjectPanama www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Original post on mastodon.social (mastodon.social)

“It's so wrong. Our role is to keep books alive, to keep them in the world. We're book lovers. We want books for the good of humanity, not just to transfer knowledge for private profit, going into building LLM machines.” Her advice to fellow bookshop owners? “Don't do it. Don't feed the […]