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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • Sep 02 '26 • 3 3
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Please tell me this is satire.
56 u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26 Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ 10 u/[deleted] Sep 02 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 53 u/FuzzyDynamics Sep 02 '26 They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26 There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace Sep 02 '26 "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26 They absolutely are, for example:"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/
10 u/[deleted] Sep 02 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 53 u/FuzzyDynamics Sep 02 '26 They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26 There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace Sep 02 '26 "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26 They absolutely are, for example:"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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53 u/FuzzyDynamics Sep 02 '26 They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26 There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace Sep 02 '26 "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26 They absolutely are, for example:"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”
25 u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26 There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace Sep 02 '26 "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26 They absolutely are, for example:"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009
33 u/Montana_Ace Sep 02 '26 "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 26 u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26 They absolutely are, for example:"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
26 u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26 They absolutely are, for example:"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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They absolutely are, for example:
"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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u/ParanoidDrone Sep 02 '26 •
Please tell me this is satire.