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’
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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.

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.

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    every article I saw says the books were scheduled to be destroyed or taken to a dump, and those are the books they are swooping up.

    Sounds like propaganda to me.