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AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late (annas-archive.gl)
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[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

404 media reported this recently. Excerpt from the article :

It’s possible to scan books without destroying them, but cutting the spine makes it cheaper and faster. Additionally, the judge in the lawsuit ruled it was fair use and not a copyright violation for Anthropic to scan a book for training data in part because it destroyed the original, printed copy. Essentially, it’s the customer’s right to take physical media and store it digitally, and destroying the original copy means that copy isn’t duplicated and resold, and isn’t cutting into the publisher’s business.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Then they plagarize that data though, using it without attribution or payment, which is aganst copyright law. If a person did this they would be stopped. Because it's big money, the law doesn't apply.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 minutes ago

Now you've entered the land of fairy tales and make believe. A person who memorizes a book and then burns it and then recites to others would in fact not be put in front of a firing squad like you want to.

Not saying corporations are people (they are though) but they are literally not doing anything else than that. Now they only have to teach the AI to learn double think, to learn from the book, but then forget the book, only to be able to remember what that book was about, while being unable to faithfully repeat it.

That's literally going to solve any and all problems with AI. It's not like we should demand meaningful regulations about the actual problems like authoritarian China does. You know, because, think of the book publishers. They are people too!