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

cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com]/t/3120649 [https://kbin.earth/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/3120649] > 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.