Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

Ars Technica
By Ashley BelangerAug 12, 2026, 11:19 am72 ptsTrending
If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of the world around them—then headlines about tech companies destroying books to train AI likely torture a tender part of your soul. It’s…

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