Companies buying rare books to train AI and destroying them

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Has this been addressed in this subreddit? https://youtu.be/LAslxexwhOU?is=W745WpGFlnmQI2PQ this is from Forbes. Why destroy those books?

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2026-08-19 23:58 · r/artificial
Companies buying rare books to train AI and destroying them

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