🔒 Paper for machines. Why does AI need old books?
These days, books are gaining a value no one was looking for in them just a few years ago. In a world that’s increasingly filled with AI-generated content, paper might turn out to be one of the most valuable repositories of texts written exclusively by humans.
A technical book no one has checked out in years. A monograph published in a small print run in the ’80s. A medical textbook that’s long been out of circulation. Until recently, such books were mostly a problem for libraries and antiquarian bookstores: they took up space, it was hard to find a buyer, and digitization often just wasn’t worth it.
The development of artificial intelligence is changing this landscape.
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