You know what’s even cheaper than destrucive scanning of old books?
Scaring a bunch of volunteers into scanning them for free.
I’m not saying that was the plan all along. But it might have been. It’s plausible, with these jerks, isn’t it?
I love Anna’s archive
All part of the plan for these assholes to change history in their favor and teach AI to regurgitate their bullshit propaganda to the naive new generation. We are living literal 1984.
The destruction of the book is done to mitigate some copyright concerns. There will be a fairly small number of large-scale projects like this, and each only needs one copy of a given book, so outside of maybe very rare books, the impact is going to be pretty negligible on availability — like someone buying one copy of that book.
The destruction of the book is done to mitigate some copyright concerns.
Can you explain? The First Sale doctrine means its OK to sell books after you’re done with them. I would think it would be the scanning itself that could be a copyright problem, not the disposition of the physical book after.
I thought the real reason, the main reason, was, as the article says, “Destroying books is cheaper.”
I agree that the concern over the destruction of physical books, and what impact that will have on their availability, is probably exaggerated. Heck, the actual importance of old books to the AI companies may be exaggerated, that seems to be their hype style.
Weird how when I buy a book, the “license” for the content is tied to the physical object, but when a company destroys the book and OCRs it, it’s perfectly ok
How to scan a book?
https://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.
Oh like they care.
No, it’s far more crass: destroying the book makes scanning easier and faster.
Yah, exclusive content, or just rats watching the ship go down while burning books. FU AI bros playing the largest scam in history…
They have cradles that hold them so a camera can photograph them. You then save the book afterwards
These AA frauds are directly providing AI companies with scraped data, no?
No
