Ask HN: New Libraries in the Age of LLMs?

1 month ago 9

> if LLMs give us immediate summaries of every page stored in them

I assume very few people go to the library currently to read a summary, why would this change in the future?

The premise of all your questions assume others agree with you that books will be replaced.

The web has been "replacing" books for a long time. Books still exist.

I think LLMs will make knowledge in older books much more accessible via modernization and reinterpretations of now-Copyright-free stories from the past.

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