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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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[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

No I know AI companies are doing that, I just don't think they would be making gifs about it.

But there's a Tom Hanks movie that came out a few years ago where in the beginning of the movie he lives in a bunker because the UV index outside is so high the sunlight is basically radioactive, and he's building a robot and he uses a machine to chop the spines off of books to feed them into a scanner to train the robot brain.

That all takes place in the very beginning and then he leaves the bunker with the robot and some shit happens. But that's what I thought this gif was from.

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Finch? Yeah it’s the same machine, just with a fun robot hand to make the sacrilege seem less awful, maybe?

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that sounds correct

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It's been a while since I've seen Toy Story 3...is Al Labs run by the same guy who runs Al's Toy Barn? Voiced by Wayne Knight (Nedry, Newman...)

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