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Reminds me a lot of google's effort to create high-quality scans of every book ever written. They got pretty far before the publishers stopped them. They now s
by mips_avatar 6y ago
Reminds me a lot of google's effort to create high-quality scans of every book ever written. They got pretty far before the publishers stopped them. They now sit on a sizeable percentage of all books published, locked away in their servers where nobody can access it.
- Valgrim 6y agoCould they still use this to train an AI model, legally speaking?
- mips_avatar 6y agoI think all they are allowed to do is sit on the data. Huge waste to human knowledge. Many of the books are out of print.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoIt's not all for naught. Eventually the books will end up in the public domain, and if Google exists then, can choose to make scans public.