Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
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旧书商怀疑人工智能公司正大量购入珍稀书籍，将其拆解扫描后销毁，以获取高质量长文本训练模型。书商担忧这一做法规模远超报道，导致部分实体书永久消失。尽管拆页扫描是最高效廉价的方式，但书商认为这种破坏并非不可避免，并对此深感痛惜。
If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of the world around them—then headlines about tech companies destroying books to train AI likely torture a tender part of your soul.
It’s indeed depressing to imagine piles of book spines waiting to be fed into wood chippers while torn-out pages are cropped, scanned, and trashed. But that’s the cheapest and easiest way to scan books as fast as possible, and AI companies are in a race to advance their models by training on the kind of engaging, high-quality, long-form texts that can only be found in books. So book lovers fear it’s likely that the practice is happening on a grander scale than is currently being reported and that some physical copies of books will be lost forever.
What makes this destruction extra painful, though, is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
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