I agree with you, that's a significant negative. Though it's as much on us as a society as anything else that we aren't valuing and preserving those books properly to begin with.
Silver lining, it's prompting a speed up in digitisation.
My original comment wasn't about defending AI or its (lack of) ethics, though. Just recognising that AI is likely here to stay, and that we should be moving the discussion to dealing with the societal impact it brings instead of spending our energy tilting at windmills while the assholes in charge widen the wealth gap even further.
