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- Destroying books is a crime against humanity. Only bad people willingly destroy books.by m4rtink
- Well guess I have committed many crimes against humanity because I’ve definitely dumped many cheap paperbacks I bought for holiday reading into the paper recycling container.
- You know who also destroyed old books? The Nazis!by r-u-serious
- Once again, see Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. Foresaw exactly this. Written in 2006, takes place in 2025.by ompogUe
- I just finished re-reading this a month ago. In the book, the process went a little further. The books were shredded into confetti-sized pieces first, then as the shreds were blown about in the air, many photos were taken, and then AI was used to stitch the fragmentary pieces of text together into the original pages.by PopAlongKid
- Glad the news broke. Now the market price for old books will shoot up
- Remember to use LOCKSS, everyon
- I thought that title was misleading. They have to cut the book up to scan it. The way it reads makes it seem like they scan it then destroy it afterwards.by tayo42
- "...Internal documents unsealed in legal filings in January revealed that Anthropic was acutely aware of how negatively such a project would be received outside the company.
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” ..."
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They do this because the law required it.
by ronsor