Post AYc7zrk1u8aKb5FSYS by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
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 (DIR) Post #AYc7zrk1u8aKb5FSYS by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
       2023-08-10T23:34:22Z
       
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       You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?Those books are just gone now, instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYc7zt5KuPDqlSDzP6 by owen@mastodon.transneptune.net
       2023-08-10T23:35:06Z
       
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       The project was buried in litigation because Google and the publishers involved couldn't come to terms on allowing online distribution.Of library books.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYc7ztrC2TVH9scCzw by scruss@xoxo.zone
       2023-08-10T23:55:08Z
       
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       @owen aren't they hiding on the Hathi Trust server, at various levels of locked down (including not even available to the library that donated them)?If Google does still have the scans, you can bet they are in LLM training data somewhere