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Yall keep overreacting to this bs, what's even a rare book with no other copies, every article I saw says the books were scheduled to be destroyed or taken to a dump, and those are the books they are swooping up. I have a feeling rare means like 1st edition or one with typos or some sht. These are books ppl already weren't buying that they are grabving in mass. All knowledge and all books aren't important, plenty of below average intelligence ppl dropping slop long before ai became a thing. Any book that you value obviously already has tons of physical copies and digital backups.

This isn't them looting some ancient libraries/museums taking some hidden/secret knowledge from humanity like yall are making up in your heads.

destroying (A) physical copy. in order to copy the (1) copy of a book(which most new already exist as pdf). kinda like how people do it when they scan the book. which has been happening for decades now to make knowledge permanent.

far cry from "destroying all books" which these rage bait titles suggest. we arent standing around a pit of fire.

bigger tragedy is how humans seem shittier at communication as AI learns. probably a more accurate title.

AI training is distroying books

Every time I hear that claim it sounds weird to me. You can't say that without an explanation.

Sure, scanning a print copy can mean distroying it but a book as a work still exist. We are very far from having scanned every books which physical copy are numerous. If AI trains on every romance novel published in the 80's, it is far from distroying books by distroying physical copy.

Now if AI company are searching for rare books to scan and distroy, it is much more worrying but finding rare editions or print copies of books is a trade and the normal citizen can't jumps in to save the day.