Don’t do drugs kids

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information,” it continues.

“Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.”

This is, pretty much, true except for a few factors, and two questions. The questions first.

First: why are they pulping the remains. Scanning pages doesn't destroy them. There is nothing stopping them from boxing up the pages and either re-selling them or donating them to an archive, besides maybe not wanting their competitors to be able to buy them. Why on EARTH are they pulping the pages after scanning?

Because this is the minor factor – sometimes, an old book is MORE than just a delivery system. There can be information in the book that a scanner doesn't catch. Texture. Material. Things (flowers &c) preserved between the pages. Etc.

Second. Are they, in fact, keeping the data of the scanned books, separate from their LLMs. We all know by now that LLMs do not retrieve intact information from their databases. Are their databases accessible as archives themselves? Because if not, they ARE destroying the contents of a book that may be the only copy of the information contained within it.

If they're scanning these books and keeping them as a digitized archive, as WELL AS feeding the scans to an LLM, then again: they could easily make those digital scans available to archivists and public audiences. If not, then... yeah, they're not just drstroying a physical book, they're destroying the information within it, because LLMs do not, again, retrieve data intact except by coincidence.

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

lawyers. im getting chills just

imagining it.

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

yes, regularly

yes, but only rarely and/or as a bit

no

other nuance