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

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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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artyom@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t get it. Can’t they just…print more books?

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- SigHunter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A book from 1920 will probably not get printed again
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    …why not?
    
    If it hasn’t been printed more than once in a literal century, is that really a loss?
    
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