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So, book burning.
They're going to erase huge chunks of our legacy, aren't they?
"My statements on book burning answer questions about the statements on book burning."
I mean, I get why books are being destroyed (the spines are cut open as part of the scanning process and it's too expensive to put them back together at scale/copyright issues), but it's as the headline says. Not exactly something that generates sympathy. Another problem is they're all doing it and not sharing the results. Even if they make some godly AI supercomputer, thousands of other companies were doing the same thing on failed projects, destroying millions of books for nothing.
they could just scan without destroying the books. It would be slower, but you could still use the book after
They’re using similar LLM technology along with X-rays to scan burned scrolls and shit, meanwhile it’s destroying these books.
Make it make sense.