alt Hacker NewsGood to see someone making this point. I'm confused by the panic, because they are making it out like AI companies are destroying every copy of the book. They only need one, and they destroy it after scanning it only because they don't want to store them all. And storing or archiving all these books is not a trivial task.
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voidhorse • today at 2:00 PM
You don't know that. A major part of the problem here is the lack of transparency.
Keep in mind we wouldn't even know this was happening were it not for investigative journalism.
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fortran77 • today at 1:37 PM
They are destroying them because it’s easier to scan them if you slice the binding.
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No, they are destroying them because that’s the way that they can keep a digital copy legally.