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AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
How to scan a book?
archive.org/details/eliza-digitizing-book_202107
That’s how to do it the right way.
Damn that’s a lot of waiting. There was another device that just MRI’d books where they were, but no, ‘AI’ companies need to rip books apart to scan them. FU.
No less frustrating but I believe destruction is a required part of the process so the AI companies can say they still only have one “copy” of the book.
Replying to @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
Oh like they care.
No, it’s far more crass: destroying the book makes scanning easier and faster.
It’s worse. They want to train their models on data their competitors cannot access. So they buy rare books, scan them in, and destroy the source material.