Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade
Scott BrownA periodic essay on rare books, bookselling, and book collecting, used as a hook to interest folks in my newly catalogued books.
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AI Is Literally Flushing Books Down the Toilet
If you’ve wondered where books end up after they are cut up for AI scanning, I have the answer. A bookseller I know put a scanning device in a book. According to the Wall Street Journal, the book ended up in a paper recycling plant south of...
AI Is Destroying Collectible Books
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All the companies destructively scanning books for AI.
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How AI forgets most of the books it destroys;
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How books are ending up at a toilet paper factory in Mexico.
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An overview of AI and dest...
AI Destroys Books and (Mostly) Forgets Them
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How some destroyed books ended up at a toilet paper factory in Mexico;
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All the companies destroying books;
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How AI is consuming collectible and scarce books by the thousand.
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An overview of t...
All the Companies Scanning Books for AI
NOTE: You can also read about:
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How AI forgets most of the books it destroys;
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How AI is consuming collectible and scarce books by the thousands;
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How books are ending up at a toilet paper factory in Mexico.
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An overview of...
All the Books in the World
This post, laying out the known facts about destructive scanning of books for AI, ended up being ridiculously long: I broke in into more easily digestible parts:
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All the companies scanning books for AI;
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How AI destroys books and...
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Scott Brown is the proprietor, packer, shipper, cataloger, photographer, and janitor of Downtown Brown Books, operating out of a secret location in Northwest Portland, Oregon.
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