Tony Bark to [email protected]English • 1 month agoAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI modelsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1133cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1133external-linkAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI modelsarstechnica.comTony Bark to [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink30•1 month agoThis 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoI like him anyway, I’ll add that to the list.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 month agoOh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoAt 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 .
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 month agoDidn’t Google come up with a system that does exactly that as a fast way to digitize books for their online library
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