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derekullo Obviously you don't cut up the Magna Carta into pieces for easy scanning. It's a one of a kind document with great historical significance. But nobody cares if you cut off the spines of the 1 of the 7 million copies of the latest edition of Encyclopædia Britannica for easier scanning. We have invented the printing press … we can print more! A mass produced book can still be mass produced after AI has trained on its data. AI only needs 1 copy lol ! Reply
USAFRet derekullo said: Obviously you don't cut up the Magna Carta into pieces for easy scanning. It's a one of a kind document with great historical significance. But nobody cares if you cut off the spines of the 1 of the 7 million copies of the latest edition of Encyclopædia Britannica for easier scanning. We have invented the printing press … we can print more! A mass produced book can still be mass produced after AI has trained on its data. AI only needs 1 copy lol ! If the only copy of the 'first edition' of anything gets lost….it mostly does not matter if there are 100,000 other supposed copies. That first edition has meaning, and you can't really tell if those 100,000 are actual true copies. Reply
DS426 derekullo said: Obviously you don't cut up the Magna Carta into pieces for easy scanning. It's a one of a kind document with great historical significance. But nobody cares if you cut off the spines of the 1 of the 7 million copies of the latest edition of Encyclopædia Britannica for easier scanning. We have invented the printing press … we can print more! A mass produced book can still be mass produced after AI has trained on its data. AI only needs 1 copy lol ! And no one is worried about that, just rare or even one-of-one books that get destroyed and originals as @USAFRet mentioned. Reply
cyrusfox Worthwhile effort, many such great books are out of print. the true hidden tome of knowledge that AI is actively erasing, I will need to look at see, Last time I used a v type scanner was in the university decades ago. Would be a fun project. Reply
usertests Anna's Archive is unfathomably based. What you're seeing is the transformation of a long-lived backup – the printed word that could last decades or even centuries if stored carefully – into private digital hoards of the AI companies. These are vulnerable to sudden deletion, mostly to avoid copyright liability. They may be "impossible" to transfer or share. AI companies were tapping Anna's Archive and other pirate sources for training data. This just worked, but hasn't survived legal scrutiny. Now, in the desperate race to stay at the front of the frontier, they will consume any "untainted" information in their paths (defined as pre-2022 with the release of ChatGPT, apparently). Every major competitor duplicates the destruction. It's true that many books are well copied and the preservation focus is on the out-of-print, first editions, and otherwise rare books that might be sucked into this system and destroyed. And you generally have a right to destroy your own property as you wish. But these are completely unnecessary duplicative efforts that are occurring solely because of COPYWRONG concerns. Books that could be read and enjoyed by anyone are being thrown into a black hole, and the digital copies will be locked away until they need to be deleted to dodge legal concerns. The people behind Anna's Archive, an admittedly illegal effort, are very serious about preserving and making information widely available to everyone. I recommend reading this blog post about it. Ultimately, the best way to preserve the modern "Library of Alexandria" is to make sure everybody has a copy. They outline how modern OCR is getting better at compressing the information from the petabytes they are working with, to something more manageable, like hundreds of terabytes. The missing link is data storage. HDD and SSD prices have skyrocketed during the current crisis, but they also leave a lot to be desired on technical levels. The development of consumer optical media has ceased, but in the labs there are "superman crystals" that could store hundreds of terabytes indefinitely. If they ever get made into a real product, there's a serious possibility that all of humanity's written knowledge could be stored on a single disc, or at least a compact stack of discs. Reproduce those cheaply, distribute them widely including the hardware readers, and the information could survive a nuclear war, or even the planet being destroyed if the discs are sent into space. Reply
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