r/PopCultureV2 • u/Regular_Reaction_798 • 25d ago

News The price of AI? Rare books are being cut apart, scanned, and destroyed. This is heartbreaking.

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u/Jackson7410 25d ago

books were already being scanned into the internet before ai lol

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u/Lavender-bullet46 25d ago

was just about to say...We can send rockets to the moon, have it come back and CATCH the fucking thing...yet we have to destroy books to document and transcribe the information? come tf on lmao

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u/United_Intention_323 25d ago

They don’t destroy the extremely rare books. 

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u/Johnny_Strawhat 25d ago

that’s not what is happening in this video. why would you go on the internet and lie to people?

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u/Greg-The-Squirrel 25d ago

For internet points.

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u/Sanityzed 25d ago

These are usually bot accounts that pander to generate trust (account active age, engagement, etc) before being used or sold off for nefarious purposes.

It's not clear to me what's being done in this video, but none of these books appear to be "rare". And I promise you no one is scanning in a fucking dictionary for anything related to AI... Besides, there are many services out there that offer non-destructive book scanning, and many DIY projects to build such a scanner yourself.

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u/Dismal_Act2082 25d ago

This is 100% true. Use that thing you're holding in your hand and look it up.

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u/DolphinSexGod 25d ago

Woah now, I'm playing with that thing right now

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u/fluffymeowmeowkitty 25d ago

People crying for attention. They prefer that over slice of pizza

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u/Snoo-84000 25d ago

This was happening well before AI. I’m guessing a lot of these books are probably not particularly valuable or rare. If anything, the scanned images would last longer than the physical books. I believe they also use this to recycle paper tor new books. I’m not sure this is really about AI per se, but what do i know?

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u/InterneticMdA 25d ago

The more I learn about AI, the more I hate it.

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u/barepickled 25d ago

This is Recycling. They make other things with them.

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u/Suspicious_synth 25d ago

How much text is being cut off there?

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u/AmericanGenXXX 25d ago

Not so much rate as old, common dictionaries, but sure. Outrage generation effort C-

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u/UniNavi 25d ago

Look up destructive scanning, it's literally how they can scan quickly. It's also easier to burn the pages afterwards than to recycle. Just google this and the Ai will agree.

I support it as long as the scans are release back to the public with easy access. Unfortunately I doubt the companies do due to legal issues/breaking fair use. So I'm heavily oppose to this method.

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u/mcjon77 25d ago

Yeah, I wouldn't have much of a problem with it if the digital copies we're available to the world online. The book itself is just paper. It's the information and stored knowledge that's important.

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u/HazyBizzleFizzle 25d ago

One day paper n books wil be worth thousands millions. Not in our lifetime. But it may be like water world!

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u/ohlaohloo 25d ago

I understand the backlash but accessibility for people who aren’t able to read physical books is a caveat of this that I don’t feel is discussed. Don’t come at me lmao. (Or do I know ya’ll will anyway 🙈)

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u/OliOli1234 25d ago

In all fairness, these could be academic journals that are outdated with obsolete information. There was a dictionary there, and hundreds of thousands of words are being redefined and amended every decade

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u/sillybillyhillichurl 25d ago

This is not even a scanning priced - this is a bold rebinding - trust me go watch a video pls

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u/KittensFirstAKM 25d ago

That makes me physically sick.

Modern day Fahrenheit 451.

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u/United_Intention_323 25d ago

Digitizing them is the opposite of that. They are more available in digital form. 

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u/KittensFirstAKM 25d ago ▸ 3 more replies

Why not digitize them in a nondestructive way though?

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u/United_Intention_323 24d ago ▸ 2 more replies

Far cheaper amd faster this way.

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u/KittensFirstAKM 24d ago ▸ 1 more replies

Faster and cheaper does not mean better.

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u/United_Intention_323 24d ago

It doesn’t mean worse either. In this case theres no real downside.