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9 votes
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Meta allegedly pirated terabytes of porn to trick the BitTorrent protocol into letting them pirate books faster
42 votes -
Pocket Guestbook
13 votes -
How technologies of connection tear us apart — Nicholas Carr's latest book
6 votes -
US Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
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Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit
27 votes -
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
42 votes -
What is the optimal way to convert an RPG book to a text format?
An RPG book is a book containing the rules and setting for a tabletop RPG game. Like Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, Worlds Without Number, Star Trek Adventures, etc. The fact that they are...
An RPG book is a book containing the rules and setting for a tabletop RPG game. Like Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, Worlds Without Number, Star Trek Adventures, etc.
The fact that they are rarely in text format always puts me off reading RPG books. I don't want to diminish the importance of art, but importing printed RPG books is prohibitively expensive, and reading huge PDFs on a laptop is not a good experience for me.
I also find it unpleasant to navigate the complicated design of these books. They're distracting.
I have a 6.8" Kindle Paperwhite but reading RPG PDFs on it is awful. RPG books have lots of art and complicated layouts. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to make an RPG into text. I was seriously considering just copying the text and converting it to markdown myself (it doesn't need to be markdown, just something that I can convert into a format my Kindle understands) when I remembered chatGPT.
Copying the text and asking GPT to make it into markdown worked okay, but it missed the tables. Sending an image of a page worked pretty well, so I think AI is the way here. But I am not a GPT subscriber and I bet I'll hit a limit at some point. Also, instead of sending pages individually, I would prefer to send the PDF and get the result in text. Even if there were limitations (like only 10 pages in one go), it would be an improvement.
In any case, using chatGPT will be much better than doing it by hand. But is there an AI or other kind of PDF service that is better suited for that task, so I can reduce the amount of manual input?
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Careless people. This is not your father’s book review.
25 votes -
Review: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands
4 votes -
Stuff I learnt in 2024
12 votes -
The Tech Coup: A new book shows how the unchecked power of companies is destabilizing governance
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Library asks users to verify that books actually exist before making a loan request because AI invents book titles
43 votes -
Superintelligence—ten years later
8 votes -
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
59 votes -
Publishers sue Google over pirate sites selling textbooks
20 votes -
How one author pushed the limits of AI copyright | US Copyright Office grants copyright for work made with AI, with caveat
5 votes -
Former Twitter employees give advice to companies who want to replace it
15 votes -
Spotify has added audiobooks to its subscription model – reaching millions of people, it may revolutionise the already booming audiobooks business
38 votes -
Database containing nearly 200,000 pirated books being used to train AI - authors were not informed
41 votes -
We know who you are
20 votes -
How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
31 votes -
Two authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT unlawfully ‘ingested’ their books
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The inner beauty of basic electronics
6 votes -
Apple introduces new AI-based audiobook narration service
15 votes -
A tech worker is selling a children's book he made using AI, then the death threats started
15 votes -
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
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Thinking about calibre
18 votes -
Mycroft and the Patent Trolls
7 votes -
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
18 votes -
Book review: The Revenge of Analog
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Book Review: Human Compatible
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Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
8 votes -
Book review: ‘The AI Does Not Hate You’ by Tom Chivers
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The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
5 votes -
Spotify Untold – Inside Spotify's ill-fated flirtation with TV and hardware
8 votes -
I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong.
19 votes -
Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism
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How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him
14 votes -
Free Ebook - Distributed Systems Observability
Haven't read this book on Distributed Systems Observability, but it seems like it might be interesting. You'll need to fill in a form to get the eBook.
5 votes