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AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots

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2 outlets - including Decrypt and Yahoo - are covering this story. AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.

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AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots
Decrypt Ethereum Jul 29, 16:38 UTC

AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots

AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.

Yahoo Finance News Jul 29, 16:38 UTC

AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots