▲ 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.
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago Not like it’s their books to begin with. It’s all available as torrents permalink fedilink source parent