I remember the book shreddings getting horrified reactions in my social circle when the story first popped up ~2 years ago, when reactions to LLMs were generally less intense. I think the general consensus was people really wished they had donated the rarer books to a library.
I remember the book shreddings getting horrified reactions in my social circle when the story first popped up ~2 years ago, when reactions to LLMs were generally less intense. I think the general consensus was people really wished they had donated the rarer books to a library.
Yeah, donating something you don’t need anymore to a library could have been a nice PR.
It’s probably cheaper to scan the books destructively. Still worth considering an extra expense for PR purposes.