They're scans. Those are human-readable. They probably won't make them available to the public, which is the exact same state they would be in if they bought the books and just put them on a bookshelf in a warehouse.

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alightsoul 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That was due to negligence. Now it is profitable to keep the books private, and actively deny others access to them.

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ceasesurthinko 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, yes, because we all know OpenAI and Anthropic are famously just front operations for the high-end antiquarian book trade.

	▲	merely-unlikely 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		High-end antiquarian book traders is a genuinely hilarious way to describe them and I shall refer to them as such henceforth.
	▲	alightsoul 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's an in house operation that benefits them, not a front.