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

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

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

AI companies anonymously bulk-buy, scan, and destroy books to feed training datasets; demand surged from ~20 to hundreds weekly. The race for pre-2023 human-authored content signals data scarcity as the new leverage point in foundation-model competition.

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mercoledì 29 luglio 2026·nzz.ch
Kaufen, scannen, vernichten: warum KI-Firmen gebrauchte Bücher aufkaufen
Anthropic muss 1,5 Milliarden Dollar zahlen – wegen illegaler Buchdownloads. Doch das KI-Unternehmen hat bereits eine neue Strategie, um kostengünstig an Text zu gelangen:…
mercoledì 29 luglio 2026·techspot.com
AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models
Its pitch is simple: older books offer cleaner data. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," the company says on its website. "Books...

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

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

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Kaufen, scannen, vernichten: warum KI-Firmen gebrauchte Bücher aufkaufen

AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models

AI's hunger for data is now consuming rare books and booksellers are cashing in

AI companies are buying and destroying old books for training data

AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models

'Dystopian' - AI firms target London’s rare bookshops in hunt for training data

Paperback writer, meet the shredder

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

'Dystopian' - AI firms target London’s rare bookshops in hunt for training data

KI-Anbieter kaufen Antiquariate leer und lassen Bücher zerstören

Warum Anthropic, Open AI und Co. alte Bücher kaufen und vernichten

AI's hunger for data is now consuming rare books and booksellers are cashing in

AI companies are buying and destroying old books for training data

This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was 'spam or phishing.' Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to…

Buy, scan, destroy: AI firms are shredding millions of books to train their chatbots

Paperback writer, meet the shredder

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Le società di AI stanno comprando milioni di libri per poi distruggerli