▲ 467 ▼ AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (www.404media.co) submitted 3 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world 103 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children) That would be all the books. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago Far from it. I think you vastly underestimate how many books have been published, and in what small quantities. Estimates are around 15% of books is digitised, and less than a third of that is searchable. I’m guessing a small fraction of that is torrentable (yes that’s a word I just made up). permalink fedilink source parent [–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) Not the rare, out of print, and long forgotten. And that's what's so scary about this. They're probably not paying to scan books that would otherwise end up at a landfill. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 point 3 months ago Only ISBN'd books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago Far from it. I think you vastly underestimate how many books have been published, and in what small quantities. Estimates are around 15% of books is digitised, and less than a third of that is searchable. I’m guessing a small fraction of that is torrentable (yes that’s a word I just made up). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) Not the rare, out of print, and long forgotten. And that's what's so scary about this. They're probably not paying to scan books that would otherwise end up at a landfill. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 point 3 months ago Only ISBN'd books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 point 3 months ago Only ISBN'd books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them permalink fedilink source parent