alt Hacker NewsRight, but if an AI company buys some vanishingly uncommon book, digitizes it, shreds it, and adds the information it contains to their permanent digital library and digests its contents into an AI that is then publicly accessible...are they making that book less accessible, or more?
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halsafar • today at 4:45 AM
Can you get the exact text back out with a prompt or not? Having or not having a book isn't fuzzy.
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GPerson • today at 4:53 AM
They’re not supposed to be storing a copy. What they’re doing is destroying their copy after training a model on it.
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Natsu • today at 4:57 AM
AIs are weirdly bad at quoting stuff in my experience.
But you'd think that the Library of Congress and such would actually prevent stuff from vanishing just by collecting it themselves.
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You've got to compare it to the alternative. Books have a half-life, and the vast majority of these books being purchased are grody, moldering ex-lib copies of books that no one has read in decades. Their other likely outcome is mulching.