Who is burning books?
A) Conservative Christians
B) Liberal Snowflakes
C) Big Tech AI Companies
Discussion
(B) and (C) The liberal snowflakes are mostly in charge of these big tech companies.
Anthropic is not destroying the books, they just extracted the information and now that they're storing the text digitally there's no need to store it physically as well.
That's totally different than destroying books to stop people from reading them like super authoritarians (left or right) do.
Can you read the book by accessing Claude? Yeah, didn’t think so.
Your question doesn’t even make sense. The whole point of training on as large of a dataset as possible is so the model picks up on the general rules of text and doesn’t just overfit and regurgitate the training data.
If you have a model where you ask it for a book and it spits out the exact book you’ve trained a terrible model.
My question is based on your premise:
> Anthropic is not destroying the books, they just extracted the information and now that they're storing the text digitally there's no need to store it physically as well.
Let me spell it out if you don’t get it: If all you are doing with the books is training models with them, that’s the same as burning the books.
What books are they burning and why?
AI is not beating the world-consuming-monster allegations
Destructively scanning books is the most financially effective ways to scan books. I remember there use to be companies that'd destructively scan college textbooks and give you back a PDF. Ebooks would be the most efficient, but I can't blame them if they have to buy a physical book to buy a license to content and avoid some EULA that'd restrict them beyond standard fair use (there's been some court cases saying scanning books you own is fair use, including one by Google AFAIK).
I'd say blame Amazon for their eula, as opposed to anyone for buying a physical print than destroying it to have a legal digital copy that doesn't have additional restrictions beyond standard copyright law.
Yeah that's not burning books.
Wait till it becomes financially interesting for them to destructively scan our brains.