▲ 682 ▼ 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 46 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.
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago Not like it’s their books to begin with. It’s all available as torrents permalink fedilink source parent