In that thread, the original poster said that the real problem was that tiny details and even major historical insights that can be gleaned from reviewing rare books will be lost to AI greed. AI firms will \u201cnever share the contents\u201d of books they scan, the poster said, \u201cas they don\u2019t want anyone else to be able to train their AI\u201d on the same works.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis sounds like propaganda from the AI haters,\u201d another Redditor pushed back, but a subsequent commenter shared similar fears. Although people might clash with someone who argues that training AI on these works will make all the knowledge that a work contains more accessible online, the commenter suggested instead that AI models would only make available \u201cwarped, censored, and paywalled fragments of ideas\u201d from forgotten works.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if you love the technology, you can admit that the concept of an AI literally eating books to become more powerful is pretty dystopian,\u201d someone else on the thread said.<\/p>\n
Some booksellers agree that not every text needs to be saved, the BBC reported. However, Scottish bookseller Derek Walker told the BBC that AI firms should be striving to distinguish between works that won\u2019t be missed much\u2014such as little-known academic texts that may technically be rare\u2014and lesser-known antique works that may be \u201cthe only known surviving example of an edition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be a much more significant problem if one like that were to be bought for destruction, having survived this long,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n
For AI firms guarding their training data and using services that mask their identities as buyers, there\u2019s likely little desire to discuss their bulk buying directly with booksellers. Allowing booksellers to weigh in on the works they plan to feed into their models would require a level of transparency that may seem riskier than a possible reputation hit if it\u2019s ever proven that a treasured first edition was destroyed in the name of advancing AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In that thread, the original poster said that the real problem was that tiny details and even major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[330,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-587867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}