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> This way, it will live forever instead, scanned But unreadable by humans, right?

• mjdv 2mo ago
  They're scans. Those are human-readable. They probably won't make them available to the public, which is the exact same state they would be in if they bought the books and just put them on a bookshelf in a warehouse.
  • alightsoul 2mo ago
    That was due to negligence. Now it is profitable to keep the books private, and actively deny others access to them.
    • ceasesurthinko 2mo ago
      Ah, yes, because we all know OpenAI and Anthropic are famously just front operations for the high-end antiquarian book trade.
      • alightsoul 2mo ago
        That's an in house operation that benefits them, not a front.
      • merely-unlikely 2mo ago
        High-end antiquarian book traders is a genuinely hilarious way to describe them and I shall refer to them as such henceforth.