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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent (www.tomshardware.com)
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As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.

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[–] 27 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Nothing will stop corpos from getting data.

But we can prevent them from paywalling access by having archives of our own.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Hmm, "archive of our own" sounds like a great name for something.

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