The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library

www.crimrxiv.com The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library

Digital librarianship—the digitization, collection, and cataloguing of texts—was one of the earliest uses of networked computers. By most accounts, the first digital library was Project Gutenberg, which began making public domain works available in 1971 via the Arpanet, the ...

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Wtf is that image?
- Brah, think of it as millions of data-drenched pages, packed with high-voltage scholarly juice, swirl through the wires like ghost smoke, and then vanishing into the hidden vaults of a shadow library buried deep in the darkweb. A digital rebel bunker, ducking the sweaty claws of greedy suits who’d sell knowledge by the ounce if they could!
  OR just some random AI image the author of the piece picked? I don't know.
  
  It’s obviously AI generated, but it’s not a library. It’s a coliseum. Very strange choice.
  
  Probably a representation of the legend of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, when many ancient works were presumed lost forever.
  More images: https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&q=library+of+alexandria+burning&t=images&origin=suggest
  
  Oh good catch!
  
  It is a panopticon
  
  Agreed. Honestly, it didn't even really need a pic.
- And the article is full of AI slop too
  
  I thought the article was pretty decent. I wouldn't call it "slop." I didn't write it so I don't have any feedback on if it's ai or not.
  
  The actual article is real but the art and abstract are ai. I don’t get this site’s strategy
  
  But to be fair, I don't really pay attention to the art or the abstract. It's the article that I read. So all good.
  
  All ~~Cops~~ AI Are ~~Bastards~~ Slop

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