<![CDATA[I was not aware of this aspect of the #AI madness/crime -]]>I was not aware of this aspect of the madness/crime -

AI companies hording & destroying books after extracting their , so that in the future, their portals be the only path to knowledge.

First source [] is new, about buying 100,000s of in , building dedicated warehouses just to collect them -

second source is 2025 about s practice

https://www.srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/jagd-auf-alte-buecher-ki-firmen-kaufen-antiquariate-leer-und-vernichten-die-buecher

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/


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agreeing with the remark that destruction of books here is a side effect rather than the mission goal - as they are trying to buy many (millions of) books, but of course not all, not each and every copy.

i sounded a bit over-dramatic there 😉

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.itu.dk/users/sebastian/statuses/116799687192859712https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.itu.dk/users/sebastian/statuses/116799687192859712Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:36:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was not aware of this aspect of the #AI madness/crime - on Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:39:07 GMT]]>@smeschmesch @sebastian

— Hey, "AI" companies are not only burning climate quotas, now they're burning physical books to train their useless product.
— Let's talk about how you phrase that.

🤯

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"Only path to knowledge"

Are they hoarding every copy of every book? 🤔

It doesn't sound like that to me, from the text in the links.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://helvede.net/users/folfdk/statuses/116799099657766342https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://helvede.net/users/folfdk/statuses/116799099657766342Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:07:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was not aware of this aspect of the #AI madness/crime - on Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:45:11 GMT]]>@sebastian "m*dness" is ableist

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