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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

Reddit r/singularity · 2026-07-26 Cached

AI companies are purchasing and destroying rare physical books to obtain training data that is free from AI-generated content, exploiting legal doctrines like fair use and first-sale doctrine, while raising ethical and preservation concerns.

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