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.
The book doesn't need electricity to function.
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A hard drive doesn’t need electricity to store the data either. Reading and writing from a hard drive also takes a hell of a lot less electricity to read text from than running OCR models on books to read the text.
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