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So, my question is, of all these books being scanned and then destroyed, aren't there many more copies of these books? And BTW, knowledge isn't permanent. It can be lost.
If you had clicked on the article before commenting instead of just reading the headline, you'd have seen that it was truncated on the lemmy post
And if you had read the small number of other comments before commenting instead of just reading the headline, you'd have seen this correction already be posted: https://lemmy.world/comment/25456917
When someone can't answer a question a common response to change the subject. Do you have an answer to my question?
They just cut and bin the books after they've been scanned, the bins are taken to the local disposal, most municipalities have a garbage dump, some burn the trash.
An ai trained on unique data is more valuable if you don't share the data it was trained on to your competition, your LLM gains an edge.
If I found a unique handwritten book from the 18th century, than I proceed to read it and memorise then burn it, I'll be the only one to posses the knowledge of it.
There are very few, if any, rare, one of a kind books that would go through this process. If one of these books were scanned for an LLM it would be done delicately in a more time consuming manner and the book would be returned.