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Didn't Google Books have a similar track record?
Vernor Vinge totally called it.
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Destroying books after they were done with them?
Doesn’t seem like it. Probably just misremembering something.
So they can rewrite the digital version
Currently en masse in Germany.
Sick.
I thought they stopped doing that.
Wow, this is insane. Thank you for sharing.
I mean they’re just buying one copy right?
Many of them are rare or 1 of 1 copies from what I've read. The people who run these companies always seem to have a broken moral compass.
these books are scanned using “destructive scanning.” This is a standard digitization method where the spine is cut off, the pages are scanned rapidly, and the physical copy is discarded afterward.
Yes, I remember having read something like this back then during the Google Books craze.
Wouldn't suprise me. The fact that anthropic wanted to keep this quiet means they knew what they're doing isn't good.