▲ 1000 ▼ 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 5 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 125 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.
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children) Yeah it’s Toy Story 3 AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days 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 3 points 5 days 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 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent [–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago It's been a while since I've seen Toy Story 3...is Al Labs run by the same guy who runs Al's Toy Barn? Voiced by Wayne Knight (Nedry, Newman...) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days 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 3 points 5 days 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 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days 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 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago It's been a while since I've seen Toy Story 3...is Al Labs run by the same guy who runs Al's Toy Barn? Voiced by Wayne Knight (Nedry, Newman...) permalink fedilink source parent