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Every time I hear that claim it sounds weird to me. You can't say that without an explanation.
Sure, scanning a print copy can mean distroying it but a book as a work still exist. We are very far from having scanned every books which physical copy are numerous. If AI trains on every romance novel published in the 80's, it is far from distroying books by distroying physical copy.
Now if AI company are searching for rare books to scan and distroy, it is much more worrying but finding rare editions or print copies of books is a trade and the normal citizen can't jumps in to save the day.
They are literally searching for rare books, paying premium costs for them, then cutting off their spines because it is faster to scan them that way.
Not only do they not need to destroy the books to scan them, but Google already did this 2 decades ago, and they did it non-destructively.
I just went on and read more article of the topics people shared in the comment. That's sounds worrying indeed but my point is more that Annans Archive appeal is very abstract in a way that it présent something that doesn't have to be a problem in a very sensationnalising manner instead of being clear about what is whappening and what we can do.