Now #Amazon is caught scanning rare old books to feed #AI and destroying them in the process https://www.404media.co/we-...

Now #Amazon is caught scanning rare old books to feed #AI and destroying them in the process https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/ Sure, some of these #books might have gotten lost anyway, but destroying them on an industrial scale is bound to have an irreversible impact on societal knowledge. This method is supported by the efficiency of scanning books, but also by the Anthropic lawsuit in which was stated that destroying the book after scanning made the scan fair use. Copyright law should encourage the preservation of knowledge instead of triggering the active destruction.