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Anna's Blog: AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late (annas-archive.gd)

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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.

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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

In another comment regarding these books, you said:

They can keep both for all I care, tbh.

So it really seems you're just insisting on this because you think it will make things harder for them. You don't care about the books or who they go to in the end.

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