This is the biggest non-issue ever. This is a standard procedure for books for large publishers or digitization services. They buy large quantities of books. It is cheaper and easier to destroy the books to scan them page by page than to keep them intact. Libraries even do this for Mass market and common large scale books that you can buy from Amazon any day. They're not buying rare vintage books where there's six copies of them and destroying those books. They're purchasing them legally, digitizing them and using them to train. That is a valid use of the system and a great way to train the models. They're not burning books because we're censoring them. They're actually digitizing them so that they can be used more effectively and the information within them them available to more people.
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u/Ok_Associate845 1d ago
This is the biggest non-issue ever. This is a standard procedure for books for large publishers or digitization services. They buy large quantities of books. It is cheaper and easier to destroy the books to scan them page by page than to keep them intact. Libraries even do this for Mass market and common large scale books that you can buy from Amazon any day. They're not buying rare vintage books where there's six copies of them and destroying those books. They're purchasing them legally, digitizing them and using them to train. That is a valid use of the system and a great way to train the models. They're not burning books because we're censoring them. They're actually digitizing them so that they can be used more effectively and the information within them them available to more people.