Booksellers Suspect AI Firms Are Buying and Destroying Rare Books for Training Data
rhiever · reddit · 2026-08-13
According to Ars Technica, some booksellers suspect that AI companies are purchasing and subsequently destroying rare physical books to obtain exclusive training data. This practice has sparked widespread discussion regarding the ethics and copyright issues surrounding AI training data acquisition.
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