▲ 751 ▼ 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 day ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 63 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.
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 22 hours ago (1 child) Is this gif from that tom hanks movie? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 child) Yeah it’s Toy Story 3 AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child) No I know AI companies are doing that, I just don't think they would be making gifs about it. But there's a Tom Hanks movie that came out a few years ago where in the beginning of the movie he lives in a bunker because the UV index outside is so high the sunlight is basically radioactive, and he's building a robot and he uses a machine to chop the spines off of books to feed them into a scanner to train the robot brain. That all takes place in the very beginning and then he leaves the bunker with the robot and some shit happens. But that's what I thought this gif was from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 13 hours ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 child) Yeah it’s Toy Story 3 AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child) No I know AI companies are doing that, I just don't think they would be making gifs about it. But there's a Tom Hanks movie that came out a few years ago where in the beginning of the movie he lives in a bunker because the UV index outside is so high the sunlight is basically radioactive, and he's building a robot and he uses a machine to chop the spines off of books to feed them into a scanner to train the robot brain. That all takes place in the very beginning and then he leaves the bunker with the robot and some shit happens. But that's what I thought this gif was from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 13 hours ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 child) No I know AI companies are doing that, I just don't think they would be making gifs about it. But there's a Tom Hanks movie that came out a few years ago where in the beginning of the movie he lives in a bunker because the UV index outside is so high the sunlight is basically radioactive, and he's building a robot and he uses a machine to chop the spines off of books to feed them into a scanner to train the robot brain. That all takes place in the very beginning and then he leaves the bunker with the robot and some shit happens. But that's what I thought this gif was from. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 13 hours ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 13 hours ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 point 13 hours ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent