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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 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They bought each one as a copy. They aren't taking all copies of all books.

Not sure why I have to explain basic math to you but here we are. Learn math bro.

And get if they are recycling THEIR ONE COPY OF EACH which they no longer use that isn't illegal nor worth an outrage. That's how recycling and reducing waste works. Better than hoarding.

Do feel free to go buy a copy and support the author if you're this passionate to get enraged over what someone does with their own one single copy.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 54 minutes ago

And if there are three copies of that book?

I don’t get it, you’re acting like every book has an infinite number of copies available. Which is just factually incorrect.