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An instant and obvious good these companies could do is to digitize these books ala google books.
by jvanderbot 2mo ago
An instant and obvious good these companies could do is to digitize these books ala google books.
- discreteevent 2mo agoThen they would have to deal with copyright. AI is the washing machine that leaves everything spotless.
- conartist6 2mo agoRemember kids, if you say "I was doing it for AI", it's legal. If you say "I was doing it for the good of humanity," well, we still remember Aaron Swartz. But of course, unlike humanity, AI is really worth it!
- jvanderbot 2mo agoThere will be an Open AI / Anthropic leak eventually. One can only hope.
- mapt 2mo agoPreservation rather than ingesting them into the gaping maw of an Intelligence Engine that preserves the soul of the book in crystalized neural network form? That would be a copyright violation.
- wongarsu 2mo agoAnd get sued even harder by publishers? Publishing any out-of-copyright books would be awesome thing to do. But it seems none of the books in this order would fall under that, and it's unclear how many old books they are actually ingesting. Current reports are mostly talking about relatively recent books