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

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

Anthropic and other AI labs bulk-purchase academic books, destructively scan and discard; 2077AI sought 3,000+ titles for LLM training. This signals supply-chain models for training data sourcing, raising copyright concerns and showing how labs build data infrastructure at scale.