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AI companies destroy physical books, threatening rare texts
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AI companies are destroying physical books, prompting calls to scan rare books before they are lost.
The destruction of physical books by AI companies threatens the preservation of rare texts. Scanning these books before destruction is necessary to preserve their content. The loss of physical copies represents a permanent loss of historical artifacts.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
AI companies are destroying physical books.
The destruction threatens the preservation of rare books.
There is a call to scan rare books before they are destroyed.
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