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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] artwork@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

The other major issue is that scanned books go directly into a private database to train AI, which the general public does not have access to. True, we will have smarter AI, but at the cost of the information not being available to future generations.

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