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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)
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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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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For an AI to troubleshoot problems with your computer (something it's really good at today), it needs content like reddit's. Books don't and won't detail weird software issues and their workarounds. One the current training set becomes irrelevant to whatever software people are running, this is a specific area where Reddit's data is way more valuable than books.

Of course Reddit locking down access to that information leads to fewer people contributing. Reddit is dead, it's just struggling to go down.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

there’s gold in there, but it’s absolutely buried in shite

yep, there is a lot of nuanced depth, but measured against the overall sea of chuds lol... and yep, the moment they started putting up walls and controlling the community it was doomed. it's gonna thrash for a while then, when the only ones left are advertisers and bots, it'll shit itself and stop twitching.