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A really small, but still confusing number of people have said, with the confidence of a kid who's smoked two joints talking to a kid who has smoked one, that the Internet Archive either destroys books, or does this process and THEN destroys the books, and that's such a weird wrong fact to believe.

They're confusing it with OpenAI/Anthropic/etc, who actually are destroying the books, because of a really dumb copyright loophole futurism.com/artificial-i...

Not a loophole, not even codified in law. In a recent case the judge used it as a point in favor of Anthropic’s fair use defense, so everyone is doing it as a legal CYA. Notably the fair use defense is incredibly subjective, has guidelines a judge can decide to use or not, and makes things really