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The real expense is in the data centers/hardware. The cost of the books is negligible in comparison.
by riskable 1y ago
The real expense is in the data centers/hardware.
The cost of the books is negligible in comparison.
- Scoundreller 1y agoSomewhere a gritty warehouse in a developing country is receiving shipping containers of old books, massive teams manually flipping each page as a 2nd hand Canon digicam takes a pic of each page, to be OCR’d by the same AI being trained. Once the book is done, 99% of them go into the furnace at the district heating boiler next door. The other 1% back to a developed country for resale.