

They just cut and bin the books after they’ve been scanned, the bins are taken to the local disposal, most municipalities have a garbage dump, some burn the trash.
An ai trained on unique data is more valuable if you don’t share the data it was trained on to your competition, your LLM gains an edge.
If I found a unique handwritten book from the 18th century, than I proceed to read it and memorise then burn it, I’ll be the only one to posses the knowledge of it.



Not the ocean floor the ocean water itself is full of dissolved metals. One could theoretically filter it to obtain salt, lithium and micrograms of uranium, and fresh water in return.
This or burning all the coal, petrol, peat, trees