AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots
AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.
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29 Jul 2026 8 days ago 1 min read
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AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots
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AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the