Another bookseller, David Tobin, who runs north London’s Walden Books—not to be mistaken for Waldenbooks—said he was also in the midst of a business boom. “In some ways it’s very nice to sell some of these titles which haven’t been sold for many years,” he told the BBC. But he added “it would be sad if they are ultimately destroyed.”
Yeah, there’s a pretty good chance they’re being destroyed.
As 404 Media wrote last month, old books are becoming a premium product because anything published after the adoption of LLMs might have LLM outputs in it, which is bad. Up until about 2022, only humans wrote books. And it’s human writing that these…
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