Kate

Married with two sons. God, family, country, in that order.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔I'd point you back to the 404 Media reporting. The bookseller they interviewed said his own inventory is full of uncommon, out-of-print, and foreign-language titles, and some of the pulped copies may be among the last still in circulation.
So museum pieces aren't ending up in bulk lots, granted. Uncommon books are, and those are the ones getting lost for good. Public domain also only settles the text question. A physical copy carries more than the words, and once it's pulped, it's gone.
The used booksellers themselves are the ones publicly worried about this.
https://t.co/xeN19P3aPp

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

@oilwars71 🦔Yep. And the courts are on their side, a judge already called it fair use, so there's no legal brake on it either.

[Ronin70 @oilwars71]

@HedgieMarkets Makes it easier to rewrite history and knowledge electronically the way they want us to see, not the way it is in written history.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

@axcilla 🦔Once the physical original is gone, there's nothing left to check the digital copy against. That's what makes destroying primary sources different from scraping a website.

[axcilla @axcilla]

@HedgieMarkets If you destroy history you can use AI to rewrite it

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

@BrianRoemmele 🦔Thanks Brian. You were early on this! The court documents even gave it a name, Project Panama, tens of millions spent, and a planning doc that flat out said the goal was to destructively scan every book in the world. Unreal.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Thank you for writing this. It is something I have tried to alert folks about, quite repeatedly for the last decade. We have lost 100s of one of a kind manuscripts and books from these folks and Anthropic is the worse offender. They have spent millions going around the world draining private and public libraries of books.

We are the Amnesia Generation and this is The Great Forgetting.

[Kate @K8sView]

@Aravind33416129 @elonmusk @HedgieMarkets I most certainly disagree with your point of view and think it is extremely shortsighted. Books can and should be protected, not destroyed for ‘convenience’, and I don’t see how anyone cannot see the relevance and benefit of this. They can be digitized without destruction.

[Kate @K8sView]

@Aravind33416129 @elonmusk @HedgieMarkets I most certainly disagree with your point of view and think it is extremely shortsighted. Books can and should be protected, not destroyed for ‘convenience’, and I don’t see how anyone cannot see the relevance and benefit of this. They can be digitized without destruction.

[Terwiggleflipper @DrRonald101]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Without the original physical book, they can change anything they want in it. That's why online dictionaries are suspect. They can change definitions minute by minute, and possible tailored to individual users. I have the complete Oxford English Dictionary in my library.

[Politicat 🇺🇸 For America @politicat1]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Thank you. This may seem small in comparison with your other endeavors, but history and culture matter and books capture both as they unfold. Each book, written at each particular time is a testimony to where we were as a civilization, nation, & culture. Priceless.

[KEEPTNRED 🔴‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸 @MisaLDW]

I have collected old history books for 4 decades now, for this very reason. Before the internet and digitalization came on the scene... newer history books were changing our history, so they have to get rid of the older history books. Thank you @elonmusk for seeing the value in old books

[neeha @neeha7777]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Do you have an arrangement with https://t.co/7a6TXCnCj6? They have digitized millions of books and magazines. I use them for genealogy research for old books. They are always doing fundraisers. They might welcome the partnership.

[BnCanceld @uknowwhy222]

I wish all would do this. There is great value in the tactile journey of reading and learning from a physical book. We have sacrificed this uniquely human experience at the altar of modernity and convenience.
While the latter have expedited our ability to create and advance the former gave us the ability to imagine and dream.
Thank you for preserving the process.

[Elizabeth @Elizabe92742105]

Have your people set up a charitable trust for all the monasteries libraries asap! I’m freaking out over here! 🙀

Are the AI companies going to shred these forever too, in order to control humanity later? Put it on my list as a gift deduction for the AI Training for the last year ;) 😹

[Naomi @Naomi_NPM]

@elonmusk @HouseoftheMuse_ @HedgieMarkets Scary that no tangible copy because you could change anything. Just saying. Look what has happened in the last several years.

Makes you cry for the generations to come

[Elizabeth @Elizabe92742105]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Thank you Elon, challenge Anthropic in only the way you can.

Humanity is depending on us for the future. ����🥰

[Glenn Mallo @Glenn_Mallo]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Thanks for your attention on this matter. The question isn’t whether we should digitize—we should. The question is whether we should unnecessarily destroy the original when it may itself be part of our shared heritage.

[Bonita Dominguez @LaLunaLlorando]

This is like a dystopian nightmare of mine coming to life … 😱 … yeah, Kindles are convenient … but a Book has a Soul, a special kind of Energy … the organic record of a human��s ideas and imagination … language made visible … there’s a heft, volume, girth, fragrance, texture, crispness … please, save as many actual books as you can … you were a bookworm growing up … you know the sanctuary actual books provide … 😢 …

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets As a former librarian, it breaks my heart to hear that AI companies are shredding the original copies of these books after scanning them.

Thank you for being gentle with them, Elon. Physical history is incredibly important.