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Anna's Blog: AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late (annas-archive.gd)
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TL;DR: AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

I remember reading somewhere that there was a legal component to the destruction too. If they destroy the original it's a transformation form physical to digital but if they don't it's a copy which can be illegal.

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