On: AI companies are shredding rare books

[edoloughlin]

> What happens to the pages after? No one needs them anymore, so they get mulched and recycled.

Strictly speaking, no one needs the Sistine Chapel or the Pietà etc. It would be a shame if they were mulched and recycled, though.

[doublerabbit → edoloughlin]

Same with the magna carta and the American constitution.

ChatGPT know them, i'd count that as digitalised why keep the originals?