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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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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

So, my question is, of all these books being scanned and then destroyed, aren't there many more copies of these books? And BTW, knowledge isn't permanent. It can be lost.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    If you had clicked on the article before commenting instead of just reading the headline, you'd have seen that it was truncated on the lemmy post

    And if you had read the small number of other comments before commenting instead of just reading the headline, you'd have seen this correction already be posted: https://lemmy.world/comment/25456917

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    When someone can't answer a question a common response to change the subject. Do you have an answer to my question?

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    They just cut and bin the books after they've been scanned, the bins are taken to the local disposal, most municipalities have a garbage dump, some burn the trash.

    An ai trained on unique data is more valuable if you don't share the data it was trained on to your competition, your LLM gains an edge.

    If I found a unique handwritten book from the 18th century, than I proceed to read it and memorise then burn it, I'll be the only one to posses the knowledge of it.

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  • [–] -1 points 21 hours ago

    There are very few, if any, rare, one of a kind books that would go through this process. If one of these books were scanned for an LLM it would be done delicately in a more time consuming manner and the book would be returned.

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