> But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it when writing new things in new ways would be unthinkable.
This feels like an unwarranted anthropomorphization of what LLMs are doing.
> Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals.
This is basically the plot to Vinge's Rainbows End, AI and all.
> But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it when writing new things in new ways would be unthinkable.
This feels like an unwarranted anthropomorphization of what LLMs are doing.
Discussion (168 points, 1 day ago, 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367850
> Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals.
This is basically the plot to Vinge's Rainbows End, AI and all.
Is that the one where the books were shredded and the shreds scanned, being reconstructed from the shreds as part of the process?