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- Tech crunch used to be tech news, now it’s ai slop with a biased agenda.
- It used to be breathless startup hype and gossip, which it might still be in some capacity.by Apocryphon
- no one uses ai for writing at tc. you're gonna end up chicken-littling yourselfby devindotcom
- There's nothing in this article supporting the claim that rare books are being destroyed, it just has a link to a paywalled article from 404 Media.by Analemma_
- Do you really think they aren't? Do you think Amazon are carefully culling rare books from the list?
Although, we have to face the fact that the 'indie' book industry isn't necessarily preserving stuff either. I was recently in an old fashioned book shop in Charing Cross road, and they were selling old pictures as well as books. I was going to buy one as a present until I realised that they were pages that had been cut out of some book, because they could get more selling them separately.
by ajb - Another discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336050
- Well they have to destroy them after scanning, else it is a copyright violation. Maybe not in the US, but in a lot of jurisdictions you are allowed to make copies/scans of Books, CDs etc. but if you sell the media, you have to delete the copy.
Given that anthropic was just fined a $1bn fee for torrenting/piracy, we cant really blame the companies for shredding the books after a scan. We should blame copyright laws.
- > Well they have to destroy them after scanning, else it is a copyright violation.
I think this is the "an undercover cop has to tell you they are police if you ask them" of AI law
by kleton - Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742. Thanks!by tomhow