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 permanently monopolized on private servers’
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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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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.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    There’s also Kobo… Kindle… epubs…

    Not just pdfs.

    Heck you can get audio books. Most books are now sold with recording.

    This has been happening for decades.

    Are all you people complaining here just not book readers and just here for pure out rage?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      Ok? That doesn’t answer my question, if anything it makes it more obvious how you are incorrect:

      If a [insert digital format name] already exists, as you claim, then why go to the trouble of obtaining, destroying, and scanning the books again?

      Your response reads like there are more options than just PDF, so it’s fine to destroy the books.