New book Dealers de mots traces how linguistic capitalism was built over 20 years
frederickaplan · x · 2026-09-03
Author frederickaplan announces his new book Dealers de mots (Actes Sud). Its thesis: the words AI tools produce are borrowed from millions of pages written by others, and the collected, analyzed, and modeled language has become capital accumulated by companies that now resell it back as services.
The book traces how linguistic capitalism was constructed over twenty years, from early word auctions to giant language models.
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