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.
After actually reading some of these articles, even the sellers of the rarers books stated that they were sellling stock they otherwise wouldn’t. So yes, it’s rare but no one wanted it.
The best case scenario is they just dump the books in full online using First Sale Doctrine. This way we don’t lose the texts.