▲ 969 ▼ 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) submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 120 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[+] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (2 children) When someone can't answer a question a common response to change the subject. Do you have an answer to my question? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) They just cut and bin the books after they've been scanned, the bins are taken to the local disposal, most municipalities have a garbage dump, some burn the trash. An ai trained on unique data is more valuable if you don't share the data it was trained on to your competition, your LLM gains an edge. If I found a unique handwritten book from the 18th century, than I proceed to read it and memorise then burn it, I'll be the only one to posses the knowledge of it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago There are very few, if any, rare, one of a kind books that would go through this process. If one of these books were scanned for an LLM it would be done delicately in a more time consuming manner and the book would be returned. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (2 children) When someone can't answer a question a common response to change the subject. Do you have an answer to my question? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) They just cut and bin the books after they've been scanned, the bins are taken to the local disposal, most municipalities have a garbage dump, some burn the trash. An ai trained on unique data is more valuable if you don't share the data it was trained on to your competition, your LLM gains an edge. If I found a unique handwritten book from the 18th century, than I proceed to read it and memorise then burn it, I'll be the only one to posses the knowledge of it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago There are very few, if any, rare, one of a kind books that would go through this process. If one of these books were scanned for an LLM it would be done delicately in a more time consuming manner and the book would be returned. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) They just cut and bin the books after they've been scanned, the bins are taken to the local disposal, most municipalities have a garbage dump, some burn the trash. An ai trained on unique data is more valuable if you don't share the data it was trained on to your competition, your LLM gains an edge. If I found a unique handwritten book from the 18th century, than I proceed to read it and memorise then burn it, I'll be the only one to posses the knowledge of it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago There are very few, if any, rare, one of a kind books that would go through this process. If one of these books were scanned for an LLM it would be done delicately in a more time consuming manner and the book would be returned. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago There are very few, if any, rare, one of a kind books that would go through this process. If one of these books were scanned for an LLM it would be done delicately in a more time consuming manner and the book would be returned. permalink fedilink source parent