Rare Book Trade Alarmed by Massive Purchases and Destruction of Books for AI Training
Hammer_Price · reddit · 2026-08-05
According to a report in the Rare Book Hub Monthly, the rare book trade, libraries, and archives are raising alarms over the massive purchase and destruction of rare and scarce books and ephemera.
These actions are reportedly being carried out to provide training data for AI models, sparking significant ethical concerns regarding cultural preservation versus AI data acquisition.
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