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AI companies are shredding rare books (xcancel.com)
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[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Rare does not mean it's valuable, these books are sold in bulk for a reason.

While I don't condone or support shipping books around the world to scan and shred so some LLM can bullshit better, sensationalising this as humanity loosing unique and precious knowledge is a bit overblown.