Tony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI modelsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down18cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1135arrow-down1external-linkAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI modelsarstechnica.comTony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareMithre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·10 days agoThis reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.
minus-squareIdontevenknowanymore@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 days agoI like him anyway, I’ll add that to the list.
minus-squareMithre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 days agoOh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.
minus-squareIdontevenknowanymore@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 days agoAt least with zones of thought I identified him as an author I don’t enjoy on the first read but rereads get better and better .
minus-squareBackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoDidn’t Google come up with a system that does exactly that as a fast way to digitize books for their online library
This reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.
I like him anyway, I’ll add that to the list.
Oh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.
At least with zones of thought I identified him as an author I don’t enjoy on the first read but rereads get better and better .
Didn’t Google come up with a system that does exactly that as a fast way to digitize books for their online library