They could have just hired a bunch of broke students to flip the pages of the books or something but no they need the data yesterday gotta make the line go up

It is the quickest and easiest way to digitize books. We used to cut the spines off of text books and scan them with our schools industrial photo copier to make the PDFs available to everyone.

I'll say it. Something should be done

[redacted] to book burners

It's because most of the US' economy right now depends on it, so the Imperial Eagle protects them like their little chicks.

The whole point is that they're creating a proprietary dataset. If they re-sold it, then other people could use that data.

Hopefully the scans will stick around and when these companies are liquidated they aren't lost.

The only contribution that LLMslop companies will make to human history is indexing all available human knowledge down to the letter. Opening those datasets to the public would be a social good that would almost offset the damage they've done (assuming they collapse soon).