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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-15 Cached

The article examines whether the surge in secondhand book sales is driven by AI firms like Anthropic purchasing books for destructive scanning to train models, amid ethical and legal debates.

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This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was 'spam or phishing.' Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-07-31 Cached

A Dutch bookseller received a bulk order for 3,000 books that turned out to be linked to AI companies scanning and destroying physical books to train language models, with Anthropic's 'Project Panama' highlighted as a key example.

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