RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117008797474566619
"its value has migrated"??
the value is the physical PERPETUAL nature of the book that is immutable except for, oh, say damaging and destroying it
what these companies do is change the control of previously immutable properties, into their absolute control to do...who knows what
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From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw.
“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9
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