To build on top of your argument: those books are rare because the knowledge they contain isn't valuable and nobody cares. Therefore that knowledge being destro

To build on top of your argument: those books are rare because the knowledge they contain isn't valuable and nobody cares. Therefore that knowledge being destroyed isn't a bug, it's a feature. The fetish of never destroying any knowledge is the same logic that hoarders use "you never know when you'll need august 1985 issue of a Swedish women's fashion magazine". Moreover, by scanning the books and putting them into AI models they make the knowledge actually publicly available. There's just no fucking way you'd ever read these books, while there is non-zero chance you might ask an LLM about it. IMO the correct solution here is: 1. Things should become public domain after much shorter period of time, like 10 years or so. 2. Government should maintain a freely accessible archive of immaterial goods in public domain - music, movies, books. The effect would be twofold: 1. Open models would have access to similar training data as private models, which would be a huge game changer. 2. Companies would be stimulated to come up with new, exciting media, rather than sell us same shit over and over again.