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AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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What is the benifit of a book being digitized for only be used for one company training their "AI". These digitized copies aren't going to be made available to humans in any way because then the company would loose the advantage they have in training data.