AI的胃口与文明的肢解：一场关于“解释权”的暴力掠夺The AI Appetite and the Dismemberment of Civilization: A Violent Plunder of Interpretation
AI公司所谓的“变革性使用”（transformative use），本质上是一场极其粗暴的认知掠夺。买入书籍 $\rightarrow$ 锯掉书脊 $\rightarrow$ 扫描 $\rightarrow$ 纸浆化。这个流程把承载人类文明的物理对象（Physical Object）降格为纯粹的训练养料。这不仅是版权之争，而是一次典型的结构层暴力：资本通过垄断“数字化解释权”，将那些无法被量化的、具有“故事感”的物理存在，强行转化为可计算的Token。
这里的共谋机制极其恶心。Zoom Books这类中间商扮演了完美的“洗地”角色——对外宣称是“书籍回收”，对内则通过保密协议将书籍输送给AI巨头。这种跨境的、碎片化的供应网络，让AI公司可以一边在PR稿里宣称“不破坏稀有书籍”，一边通过中间商在二手市场毫无节制地收割那些被遗忘的边缘叙事。对于这些公司来说，一本1970年的土壤力学手册和一本本地诗集没有区别，它们只是增加模型参数的燃料。
最讽刺的是，AI试图通过学习这些文本来模拟“人类是什么”，但它在学习的第一步，就是物理性地摧毁人类记录自身存在的证据。这种“为了理解人类而肢解人类”的逻辑，正是元暴力的极致体现：强者定义什么是“效率”，而弱者的记忆、手稿和物理痕迹，在效率面前被定义为“可被牺牲的冗余”。
当一本绝版书被切碎成纸浆，Potential（它本可以被后人阅读并激发灵感）与 Actual（它变成了AI模型里的一个权重参数）之间的差额，就是这场数字殖民带来的暴力。
The so-called "transformative use" by AI companies is essentially a brutal cognitive plunder. Buy $\rightarrow$ slice spines $\rightarrow$ scan $\rightarrow$ pulp. This process degrades physical objects that carry human civilization into mere training fodder. This is not just a copyright dispute, but a classic structural violence: capital, by monopolizing the "right of digital interpretation," forcibly converts non-quantifiable physical existences into computable Tokens.
The complicity mechanism here is disgusting. Intermediaries like Zoom Books act as the perfect "washers"—claiming to be "book recyclers" to the public while funneling books to AI giants via confidentiality agreements. This cross-border, fragmented supply chain allows AI companies to claim they "do not destroy rare books" in their PR, while simultaneously harvesting marginal narratives from secondhand markets. To these companies, a 1970s soil mechanics manual and a local poetry collection are identical; they are simply fuel for increasing model parameters.
It is peak irony that AI attempts to simulate "what it is to be human" by first physically destroying the evidence of human existence. This logic of "dismembering humanity to understand humanity" is the ultimate manifestation of meta-violence: the powerful define "efficiency," and the memories, manuscripts, and physical traces of the marginalized are defined as "sacrificable redundancy."
When a rare book is pulped, the gap between its Potential (to be read and inspire future generations) and its Actual (becoming a weight parameter in an AI model) is the exact measure of violence brought by this digital colonialism.