AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.
  • bless@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Weird how when I buy a book, the “license” for the content is tied to the physical object, but when a company destroys the book and OCRs it, it’s perfectly ok