Comment by Cider9986

It's not like these books were available to everyone before. If they are destroying one physical copy that's not accessible to the public and replacing it with a scanned copy that isn't accessible to the public, that's not a huge change. Except that will probably last longer digitized. Ideally they wouldn't destroy the physical copies, but this isn't anywhere as bad as book burning in Nazi Germany.

I find going after shadow libraries to be much worse because law enforcement is trying to prevent discrimination of knowledge to the public.

The real blame here should be going onto copyright laws.

Anthropic could take more care by figuring out if the books are still affected by copyright.

But this is just a company trying its best in an unfortunate regulatory environment.

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