▲ 89 ▼ 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) submitted 1 month ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/books@lemmy.world 2 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649 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.
[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) How are they bigger than the Internet Archive? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) If we are talking only about books not other types of media then Anna's Archive is larger. One of their sources is even internet archive. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) If we are talking only about books not other types of media then Anna's Archive is larger. One of their sources is even internet archive. permalink fedilink source parent