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So at this point we're gonna have to go back to reading books...
Books made before 2019. Amazon is absolutely filled with AI generated books nowadays.
In fact, this whole "consume media only from 2010 and earlier" idea is getting more appealing by the day. I'd rather watch an anime from the 80's where each frame was drawn by a human hand and somebody spent a week encoding it to extract all the details from the original analogue source, and the subtitles were made by a person who considered each nuance carefully as if their life depended on it, rather than watch a 2025 sequel to a prequel to a reboot of an existing IP where half the assets are AI, the subtitles are AI, the script is AI, and it's just the most generic mass appealing thing ever made.
It's pretty sad, creepy and hopeless, but this is exactly how I have been feeling lately with YouTube videos. If it's made post GPT, I am not inclined to watch it unless it's a channel I know has a stated anti-AI position, because at least then I know I'm getting human input. They are building up Plato's cave around us stone by stone, we can't even move out of the way, we are getting imprisoned, and the few of us who see it happening and shout are being drowned out by the noise of the billions around us who happily hum along.
The system itself needs to come down, with violence, or we won't make it, none of us, and honestly even if it does, I am not sure we are going to survive. I feel like I'm playing the fiddle on the Titanic.
The 80s and 90s have some of my favorite anime, movies, and tv shows anyway. I can't really think of any recent masterpeices aside from Interstellar and The Martian.
If you are a USian then you probably have access to a public library.
If you go to the website of said library, usually a city.gov or countystate.gov, you can create an account.
After you create said account, you can download apps(they will tell you but normally Libby or Hoopla, Hoopla hasn't been work for me but might be a me issue.).
Use the ID from the website on the apps and you can check out books to read. You also have access to comics and audiobooks. The Invincible comic is good, you should check it out.
Weird that third party apps, made by corporate entities, are needed for this. They're public libraries funded with public money, it should be one unified backend with libre applications.
Then the libraries would have to pay for hosting, so they'd have to be the ones selling user data to advertisers and stuff. Hence the extra degree of separation / "plausible deniability"
If the hivemind cared about actual important priorities (instead of just the desire for low oil prices), then the Internet Archive would face more pressure to improve its infrastructure and the authorities would face more pressure to leave the Internet Archive tf alone.
Nostr can fix this someday
What? Libraries don't sell data to advertisers to acquire, maintain and lend books. Why would they do that to provide ebooks? You unitedstatians got used to this bizarre mix of private corporations and public services and ended up accepting the premise that it's somehow mandatory.
I'm not accepting the premise, that's why I use nostr on the internet and actual library buildings off the internet.
But it is mandatory, whether that's acceptable or not. Authorities in the US aren't gonna suddenly change their mind when it's your local librarian instead of the Internet Archive trying to run things differently from the corporations. The librarian needs better infrastructure to stand up to the authorities and break away from the corporate way
My username isn't random coincidence.
You likely need to physically go to the library and prove your residency but yes. Then you can do the above.
Most new books are AI generated now.
Human forums. Throw in a tar pit for any scrapers