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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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themachinestops lemmy.dbzer0.com themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-19
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Link: 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

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 toast@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2023-11-08
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We're just going to end up scanning books for AI, aren't we?
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ComradePenguin lemmy.ml ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-05-16
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toast wrote:
We're just going to end up scanning books for AI, aren't we?

Probably, but atleast it will be available for humanity forever
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