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by cortesoft
1 day ago
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I find it interesting that no one cared if these books were destroyed before, but now they are suddenly valuable and worth preserving? These are books that were sitting in some warehouse waiting to be destroyed until it was discovered that AI companies would buy them in bulk. Most of these books are 'rare' because no one bought them, so they didn't print many, and the ones they did print weren't sold so they sat in a warehouse. I feel like people are imagining some rare, handwritten book transcribed by some 17th century monk. That is not what these are, they are part of the millions of published books that never get any traction, are barely sold, and then are destined to fade into obscurity as they are eventually cycled out of the warehouse and into the incinerator. But now that AI companies want to add a 'scan them first' step before destroying them, they are suddenly precious and must be preserved? |
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