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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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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree about not destroying books, but Anna's archive is ok with providing all of their info to llms

https://web.archive.org/web/20260305153357/https://annas-archive.gd/blog/llms-txt.html

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I am all up for starving machine learning of new knowledge but I view this as the least friction path. Otherwise, if the machines try to brute force their entry, what harm can kt cause?

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