AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
- annas-archive.gl/blog, 2026-08-05 A guest post by Anna’s Archive volunteer “u” (translated from Chinese).
- TL;DR: 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 before this cultural heritage disappears forever.
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- annas-archive.gl/blog, 2026-08-05 A guest post by Anna’s Archive volunteer “u” (translated from Chinese).
- TL;DR: 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 before this cultural heritage disappears forever.
Sources: Annas-archive