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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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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

And we used copiers and voice recorders for that since before computers. That has been used since the 70s. Even earlier.

scanning that and adding it to the common knowledge and making it accessible is something we've been doing since computers were a thing decades before today.

Students now still use recordings that can be parsed into text.

Suddenly it's an issue now because someone needs so badly to be outraged by literally everything that can be distorted into a rage bait title like this one.