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.
Plenty of approaches that don’t destroy the book. These are years old solutions. They weren’t first editions, but the point was there was no human with any archivist training making the decisions to destroy all the books. It was a free for all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ccxwNssmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLznMkyrCR4