We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Aust

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed