The value of books

They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em. Rage against the machine - Bulls on parade There's been a lot of discourse on my remaining social media this week about certain AI companies purchasing what used to be called 'long tail' books when I worked in a book data company (admittedly it was a long time ago). The purpose being, that these books of all types are a form of undigested, pre AI information/sentence structure ripe to be absorbed. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-are-reportedly-shredding-millions-of-books-to-train-models-tech-giants-outsource-to-middlemen-to-secretly-buy-up-books-for-training-material link to Toms Hardware article on the subject. The voices largely seemed to fall into two camps; the 'this is a crime against all that is sacred' camp and the 'its just old copies of Windows 3.11 for beginners that never sold, what’s the issue' camp. I am, obviously, much more on the former, but do think that the later…