Millions of books were destroyed in the process of scanning them to feed “AI” databases. You have no idea how upset this makes me. I love books, they kept me company during my childhood/teen years while figuring out myself (although still am) https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/
@djlink
Would be nice if all these scans were then used to preserve the books, digitally, maybe sending everything over to Internet Archive.
@Jayenkai @djlink
It's possible that these digital copies are preserved somewhere.