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We also have no guarantee these books will be available at a later date in these digitized formats, nor that they won’t be altered to fit certain narratives which is of course trivial to do with digital copies. At a minimum these need public verifiable checksums to be relied upon.
I don’t like this and don’t trust it one bit.
These AI companies already showed their hand in trying to corner the PC component market with an end goal of users no longer being able to own their own PCs. Now they’re potentially trying to do this with all written recorded information.
How long until Altman’s Firemen show up at your door to burn your books?
They even hve an economical incentive to destroy the books, because by doing so, they will get the data and prevent the competition from getting it for them
The incentive is literally that it's cheaper to scan, that's all.
But given they're only interested in books with ISBN's, I recon they're already scanned and available in digital forms. If they're newer than the 80s, they're most likely in a document file in a server related to the publisher.
Honestly surprised they'd rather source physical books, than just request various publishers for a price for their combined works - Only reason I can think of, is the physical scan makes other scans like a mobile photo easier to recognise and respond correctly to
Literally Fahrenheit 451
Silicon valley needs to burn
I mean it's California so it just like does that so.etimes, but I mean the residents. The residents need to burn.