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Obscure and Rare Physical Books are Being Destroyed for AI Training

Obscure and Rare Physical Books are Being Destroyed for AI Training

Somewhat old news, but new to me, probably to some to you guys as well. Another small thing to pile on the infinite list of AI suckiness.

https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-firms-destroying-obscure-editions-train-ai-models​

https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books

Edit: Something tells me that the now deleted, somewhat less friendly reply to the post is the same person/shill/bot as Ok-Eye4820:

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u/TribeWars — 14 hours ago