AI Labs Quietly Buy Up Old Books by the Million – And Shred Them for Training Data
AI companies are purchasing millions of old and rare books to train models on uncontaminated human text, often destroying the physical copies in the process. Court records, data brokers, and bookseller reports reveal systematic bulk buying followed by destructive scanning, raising alarms about the permanent loss of unique printed artifacts. The practice accelerates as digital sources grow polluted with AI-generated content.
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