▲ 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.
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (4 children) Yeah it’s Toy Story 3 AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent [–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago It's been a while since I've seen Toy Story 3...is Al Labs run by the same guy who runs Al's Toy Barn? Voiced by Wayne Knight (Nedry, Newman...) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 child) Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago Yeah, that sounds correct permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago It's been a while since I've seen Toy Story 3...is Al Labs run by the same guy who runs Al's Toy Barn? Voiced by Wayne Knight (Nedry, Newman...) permalink fedilink source parent