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inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late

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AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late

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inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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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.
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    How to scan a book?

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      https://archive.org/details/eliza-digitizing-book_202107

      That’s how to do it the right way.

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        Damn that’s a lot of waiting. There was another device that just MRI’d books where they were, but no, ‘AI’ companies need to rip books apart to scan them. FU.

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          No less frustrating but I believe destruction is a required part of the process so the AI companies can say they still only have one “copy” of the book.

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            Oh like they care.

            No, it’s far more crass: destroying the book makes scanning easier and faster.

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            Yah, exclusive content, or just rats watching the ship go down while burning books. FU AI bros playing the largest scam in history…

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      They have cradles that hold them so a camera can photograph them. You then save the book afterwards

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