Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
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This reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.
I like him anyway, I'll add that to the list.
Oh, it's a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.
At least with zones of thought I identified him as an author I don't enjoy on the first read but rereads get better and better .
Didn't Google come up with a system that does exactly that as a fast way to digitize books for their online library