Secondhand booksellers suspect AI firms behind bulk book orders for data mining
nordicinst · x · 2026-08-15
The Guardian reports that secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland have received bulk orders from mystery buyers, suspected to be AI companies acquiring books for data. Anthropic was previously found to have spent millions on books to scan. Booksellers note the orders are random and lack thematic coherence.
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