Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities
www.tomshardware.com
Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation.
  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    20 years ago, google’s World Brain project was to non-destructively scan all the books and then start a library for everyone.