your post gave me the following idea:

the archive should train some LLM on all of those books, and then publish the trained model.

who'd want to borrow the books under DRM if they can have a locally-running LLM that can search, summarize or even "write" them on demand?

crossing these rays would pit the LLM giants against the book MAFIAA. in such a fight, we should all be rooting for the fight, but if it brings LLM giants to defend the Internet Archive, that could be good?

cc: @brewsterkahle