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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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[–] 42 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Fucking scanning books without destroying them, the philistines! /s

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Is this gif from that tom hanks movie?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No I know AI companies are doing that, I just don't think they would be making gifs about it.

    But there's a Tom Hanks movie that came out a few years ago where in the beginning of the movie he lives in a bunker because the UV index outside is so high the sunlight is basically radioactive, and he's building a robot and he uses a machine to chop the spines off of books to feed them into a scanner to train the robot brain.

    That all takes place in the very beginning and then he leaves the bunker with the robot and some shit happens. But that's what I thought this gif was from.

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