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dpedu 60 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI companies are shredding rare books

Digitizing books, even if it means the destruction of the original, means more people end up having access to the knowledge within, and is a good thing. Full stop.

xgulfie 60 days ago [–]

They are digitized for private training and not for public use. Not a single human is reading these.

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