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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna&#x27;s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.</p>
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