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To be honest, what surprises me most of all is that, after three decades of intensive digitisation of analogue media, there are still purely analogue copies in existence at all!? In that respect, I see this more as a benefit than a threat, as some people here are suggesting.
Three decades?
You mean to tell me that you think that three decades is enough to digitize centuries of printed media in almost all languages in the world?
Absolutely. At the very least, everything of relevance, that is, anything that has been catalogued in libraries, for example, should be almost entirely digitised. We may well find out soon whether AI companies can still uncover anything of relevance amongst the other books, i.e. those that have not been widely published or catalogued. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning
If we have access to the digital copies then Yes, but we don't have access to them, they are turned into training data for AI.
True. I suppose I’m being a bit too hopeful there.