A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them

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Aug 1, 2026, 3:45 pm99 ptsTrending
ISBNdb ships up to a million books anonymously to AI labs Pre-2022 books are prized because chatbots never touched their text Spine-cutting scanners destroy originals to speed up digitization for training AI companies are increasingly turning to printed books published before 2022 as preferred training material…

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