Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities
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Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation.
  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    They are specifically going for rare books, looking for stuff that is nowhere to be found digitalized.
    We have the non-profit Internet Archive working with donations and scanning rare books to make them available for everyone without destroying any. And then we have those trillion dollar companies destroying rare books so no one gets access to them and only their databases can use it.