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It's like when they have their weekly meetings, their discussion revolves around what they can possibly do to get people to hate them even more.
I don't believe it's hyperbole to say the money comes from sociopaths. Sociopaths assume everyone is in it for themselves, they assume everyone else thinks like this, that it's just how people do stuff.
Bad title. The destruction is part of their super shitty method of scanning them, not an afterthought.
Yup. All because non-destructive scanning is slightly slower and more expensive.
The way I heard it, it was mostly to satisfy copyright requirements, albeit destructive scanning is easier, indeed
I don’t like the end-use, and I don’t like that uncommon books are being pulped.
Solution: require every book ever to have one copy in central backup library. UK do this.
Can always reprint book. If you worried about loss of last copy send to internet archive to digitize.
..wrong order of operations, bad post title.
Destroying them is done before ingesting them.
Purposefully inflammatory title and disinformation as a result.
The order is correct. They strip the covers off - this unbinding doesn't destroy them. If they were destroyed at this point "before ingesting" then they couldn't be scanned and digitized. This is just part of the ingesting process. Unbinding improves the quality of the scans, ackshullay. This improves the preservation of the information inside (the digital copy.)
They could totally rebind them after scanning (ingesting is poor word choice, IMO.) They don't. They destroy them or simply discard them.
The unbinding is the shit people refer to when talking about them destroying the books.
Dont be dense.
Again if you destroyed the book before you scanned it how the fuck does one scan a destroyed book.
You are incredibly fucking dense if you don't understand the meanings of the words you are using.
Blocked.
Yeah thats the thing "destroyed" isnt even the right goddamn word tats what Im talking about in terms of it being inflammatory
They are disassembling the goddamn books, which is the correct word to use, but that doesnt produce effective clickbait headlines.
Does including that detail actually change anything? It is still careless and malicious with no concern for the existence of human society. I honestly see no difference, the intent is the same. They only need a book once, so it does not help the cycle of libraries replacing their catalogues with new and more requested books.
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and ~~Then~~ (The process used to scan the them has the result of) Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
Does including that detail actually change anything
Yes.
Don't be dense
Yes.
That is a pretty simple response to a nuanced issue.
Do the sentences:
"Doctor treats child with an immunization, then stabs them with a needle"
Versus
"Doctor gave a child a vaccine"
Sound like the same thing to you?
You dont possibly see how the first one is simultaneously wrong and inflammatory perhaps?
Dont be dense... jfc
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