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.
First people complained about them pirating, now people are complaining about them following copyright. It should be clear at this point that the people complaining don’t really care about either, they just don’t like AI.
No, we’re complaining about rich fucks only caring about laws when it suits them.
What are you talking about? These companies scanned a copy and destroyed the original on purpose. Any legal claim that the company had to the backup is null and void.