AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
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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 to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

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.

  • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Also, these companies are not charities

    AI companies are filthy rich (at our expense).

    They can afford to donate books.

    Once again: “capitalism” is not the answer.