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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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The process of Anna's Archive digitizing books and AI tech companies digitizing books is largely the same. The difference is that with Anna's Archive is that the books won't only end up in one companies data set

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    [–] 16 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Burn down Data Centers.

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