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   Stewart Russell (scruss@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:40:03 JST Stewart Russell

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   • Owen

   @owen aren't they hiding on the Hathi Trust server, at various levels of locked down (including not even available to the library that donated them)?

   If Google does still have the scans, you can bet they are in LLM training data somewhere

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     Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:40:05 JST Owen

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     The project was buried in litigation because Google and the publishers involved couldn't come to terms on allowing online distribution.

     Of library books.

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     Owen (owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:40:07 JST Owen

     You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?

     Those books are just gone now, instead.