10k-100k Unique Books May Be Lost Forever Due to AI Labs' Destructive Scanning
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-08-24
Ivan Vendrov predicts that between 10,000 to 100,000 unique books will be lost forever due to destructive scanning by various AI labs over the next few years. This destruction is incentivized by the desire to monopolize rare books and eliminate publicly available versions to deny training tokens to competitors.
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