World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent

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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/worlds-largest-open-library-calls-for-volunteers-to-scan-and-preserve-physical-books-as-ai-companies-buy-scan-and-destroy-them-annas-archive-says-time-is-running-out-as-knowledge-is-permanently-monopolized-on-private-servers

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As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna’s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.

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toast@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We’re just going to end up scanning books for AI, aren’t we?

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- ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Probably, but atleast it will be available for humanity forever
  
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