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Should we destroy all the books in the world?
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this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2026
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If the book has no historic value and the digitized copy is complete and freely available, I don't see a problem
Not how it works here, I'm afraid. The book contents will train AI and then is destroyed. Not digital copy is saved. Since these are rare books, all that remains of them is the gibberish AI will vomit when users make questions about the topic once covered by the book.
I actually think they are saving a copy. They need to be able to redo the training if they come up with a better architecture.
I know... The "format conversion" is not too big of a concern for me (except for rare books), digital copies can be more accessible... but they only extract raw text so not the full book experience, then never release it.
Well, two problems then.