Decrypt·Jason Nelson·3h ago

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.

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💬 Discussion: 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.

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