themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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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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

www.tomshardware.com

themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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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 permanently monopolized on private servers’
www.tomshardware.com
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.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649

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.

  • Toga77@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    9 hours ago

    You don’t need to destroy books to scan them.

    You’re very gullible.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      9 hours ago

      “gullible”

      hurry, you better take up reading books to learn the meaning of these words you’re using before the AI ‘destroys’ the useless copy you never wanted nor thought about until now.