Mega corporations like Anthropic are "buying physical books, slicing off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages, then pulping the remains". There are so many things that should be a stark warning about how #AI threatens humanity. "Destructive scanning" is the latest.
carpenter22www.theguardian.com/technology/2... ‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI