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The importance of hardcopy

Yesterday I received an email from a reader.

They pointed me to a story highlighting the fact that AI companies have been buying books and scanning them so that the information contained within their covers can train their systems.

I guess this is one way of trying to avoid copyright claims from publishers griping that their content has been scraped from the Net without permission. Is buying a book, scanning it, then training your AI on its contents really any different to a person buying a book, reading it and learning from what they read?

The writer of yesterday's email raises some very interesting points however.

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I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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