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Yes, one copy. One copy of each title still in copyright. Aka, could be put back in print and money be made off it by the owners. They aren't allowed to resell or allow to be transferred the original copy - that's how it'll be respected. That's the court determination they're following.

Bullshit. They are using old books to train AI models. The books are destroyed as a result of needing to fill pages through a scanner.

Because AI companies are fucking evil. That’s it. That’s the reason.

I needed that history lesson again🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

The criminals don't like books.

No 🖕🏻

The Decree of Demophantos is a good ancient writing to train your AI models on.

Dumbest timeline ever. Efficiency is a cover for greed. See also DOGE. #kleptocracy

Uggghhhh!!!!

Heard about this recently. And this is one of the reasons why AI should be reduced in usage at the least. Because AI has been implemented so deeply that companies or any other places need AI to progress easier. (e.g. Software Developing Companies in need of AI to make their workflow easier/faster).

They have an idolatrous worship of a scaling "law." Every time they make the training corpus ten times bigger, they get a unit increment in intelligence. But I don't think they're that far from having literally scanned every book. How will they find new books to get to the next factor of ten?

Friggin disgusting Tech bros going to ruin the world

what are we becoming ?

Vandals

Sacrilege.

"This technique, which he had at least treated with kid gloves. The hands of death had already outgrown these gloves."

The dumped in the trash part is due to a judicial order that makes it okay to scan the book as long as you destroy it later. Also, by rare, these are mostly long tail books, the 13th edition of Lonely Planet Rome, and iPhone 4 for Seniors, stuff like that.

As a voracious reader, this is horrifying and breaks my heart.

Scumbags. All of them.

tiens celui-là c'est cadeau !

So. Yay doingbb vs it because they CAN, they don’t think whether they SHOULD!

There’s a way to do this without destroying and disregarding these artifacts. It says more about how tech and companies disregard art and history.

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They are actually this Evil. I remember being horrified by the Taliban dynamiting centuries old Buddahs in Afghanistan. WTF???!!!😵‍💫

This should be a crime.

Legally sound, but evil. Just evil.

What? Nobody else saw The Book of Eli?

This is just fear mongering. If it's out of copyright, they don't need to ripscan them. There'd already copies, and if there isn't, they can make as many as they want. The digital copies they make for training can be trained on infinitely. That's the point of scanning them: So they only need one.

Priceless.

Heartbreaking

Are they paying for these books?

The intellectual property that all AI models must depend on belongs to individuals or America. AI vendors must pay massive royalties to the Government on behalf of all the people.

There's plenty of free digital books online that they can use. I haven't read the article but I'm assuming the title is used for clicks and inside the article it's completely different.

How can we let this go on?