I think the real problem here is the archaic reasoning that scanning a document from hard copy is different from just getting it online. The former is "fair use" and the latter is piracy. Any method of accessing books by non-humans should be considered the same thing under the law.
Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them.
How long can we allow this cultural theft and erasure masked as 'progress' to continue?
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