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This is the opposite of a book burning. These books which only a few would ever know the names of, let alone find, let alone read, are being digitised so they c
by DarkIye 2mo ago
This is the opposite of a book burning. These books which only a few would ever know the names of, let alone find, let alone read, are being digitised so they can be found in electronic searches.
- swed420 2mo ago> are being digitised so they can be found in electronic searches What guarantee do we have that the book contents will be served unfiltered and unaltered?
- dpark 2mo ago> being digitised so they can be found in electronic searches You make it sound like they are running a second Project Gutenberg. They most definitely are not making these available for electronic searches. At least not searches the public can participate in.
- coffeefirst 2mo agoCorrect. If they were doing this with Gutenberg/Smithsonian/some library so there's both a public archive and training the language model, it wouldn't have the ick factor.
- left-struck 2mo agoAre they being digitised? That word implies that the book would have a digital representation of the original, which is not what an LLM is. Can they be found in electronic searches? I mean I kinda get what you mean, the knowledge was potentially forgotten and now it might not be, but also the authors who created that knowledge get no credit, no reward.
- imhoguy 2mo agoAnd knowledge from these books can be "imprinted" into a model to be used by much more people or even survive this planet once sent into space in a probe.
- rubylimetea 2mo ago> “imprinted” I would say “reduced”
- rubylimetea 2mo agoThey aren’t “digitizing them” as if they are making them available online. They are creating embedding vectors and training documents - changing whatever they want - and destroying the original copy so nobody knows what was actually said. It is just like book burning.