"it refuse to OCR public-domain books that included content that it didn’t like, such as references to prostitution in 19th-century books about Japan."

Thoughtcrime -like territory and self-sensorship. The AI safety lobby is such a vile influence on the freedom of expression and communication via technology (since AI is starting to eat up rest of technology).

I guess the main problem is positioning AI tools as "human-equivalent" creators by the big AI corps. If they were positioned simply as "better OCR and proofreading" people would attribute to them as much responsibility as they would to a - say - typewriter and we would not need to have this nonsense.

I do realize most of the valuation comes from the positioning of "our TAM is the global salary base of 50 trilion and we aim to supesede human workers in the near future" which implies they need to position this technology as "human equivalent" or that valuation is no longer as credible.