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.

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.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    There’s a ton of ancient documents and books that don’t have copies of them (Chinese stuff for example that wasn’t all digitized), please tell me data centers aren’t seriously trying to take those as well and burn those as well

    • Pistachio@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I think its a solid bet to say that if there’s a price on it, data centers will pay.

      That being said, China is famously protective of their shit. So if its in their hands, its probably safe.