@juergen_hubert great, another wonderful contribution to society

@juergen_hubert
Actively destroying our collective memory, our collective cultural heritage.
Fuck.

@juergen_hubert

They can't use information that is already processed, so they need to get 'tasty' new human books. Not so sure why they would need to shred the books afterwards. That seems rather odd.

@NathanMurdock

Well, what use is an already-scanned book to _them_, after its information has been extracted?

@juergen_hubert If they don't want to pay to store the books afterwards they should probably be donating them to secondhand book shops 🤔

@juergen_hubert Always bet on LLMs being the most evil tech in the world.

@juergen_hubert "It includes a scanner that reads individual pages of books at high speed. These pages were previously removed from bound books."

Other, non-destructive, scanning technologies exist, such as that used to create the Cambridge Library Collection. But the process costs more.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-library-collection

@TimWardCam

And these organizations do not care about the physical books themselves, merely the information within.

@juergen_hubert I can assure you that CUP cared about the physical books - the University Library wanted them back undamaged.

@TimWardCam

I meant the AI companies who are buying those books from secondhand stores.