Booksellers Suspect AI Firms Are Buying and Destroying Rare Books
rhiever · reddit · 2026-08-13
According to Ars Technica, some booksellers suspect that AI companies are purchasing rare books to use as exclusive training data and then destroying them. This practice of destroying physical cultural artifacts for model training has sparked significant controversy and industry concern.
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