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.
  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    143·
    4 days ago

    You know what’s even cheaper than destrucive scanning of old books?

    Scaring a bunch of volunteers into scanning them for free.

    I’m not saying that was the plan all along. But it might have been. It’s plausible, with these jerks, isn’t it?

    • Gaslov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      4 days ago

      You do have to wonder who paid to get this content in front of everyone. How did anyone even know?