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AI book scanning echoes 2006 sci-fi novel's digitization method

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AI companies are scanning books for training data, a practice reminiscent of Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel "Rainbows End." The book depicted a "Librareome Project" that digitized a university library by shredding books and using cameras to reconstruct the text. AI

RANK_REASON The item discusses a current AI practice and relates it to a fictional depiction in a science fiction novel, without introducing new factual information or a significant industry event.

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AI book scanning echoes 2006 sci-fi novel's digitization method

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    Everyone recently talked about AI companies slicing off the bindings of books and scanning the pages so the text could be used for AI training. It immediately m

    Everyone recently talked about AI companies slicing off the bindings of books and scanning the pages so the text could be used for AI training. It immediately made me think of Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End", which came out in 2006. In this novel set circa 2025, the Librareome Proj…

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