TL;DR: AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    They also exist with a vacuum puller that goes page by page, using a vacuum strip to hold the page tight to a scanner bar as it pulls upwards. Its just slower is all.