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22 Jul 2026 14:52:41 UTC

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They''re Free of AI Slop

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007769

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25 Jul 2026 04:16:09 UTC

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot Pivot to AI

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044469

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27 Jul 2026 08:09:08 UTC

AI companies are buying books and destroying them

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066514

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27 Jul 2026 12:32:12 UTC

AI companies are shredding rare books

https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/17 Dec 2035 20:03:08 UTC485296565

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738

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27 Jul 2026 22:11:17 UTC

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076129

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27 Jul 2026 23:32:01 UTC

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books and Destroying Them at Scale

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077029

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28 Jul 2026 05:04:45 UTC

Anthropic Knew Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books

https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-boo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079584

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28 Jul 2026 15:23:37 UTC

Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (I don''t think so, not this time)

https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/is-an-ai-company-buying...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085321

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29 Jul 2026 10:52:51 UTC

AI companies buy, scan, shred rare and out-of-print books

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-b...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095750

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29 Jul 2026 16:33:54 UTC

AI companies are reportedly shredding books after using them to train AI models

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099668

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31 Jul 2026 11:00:37 UTC

AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/ai-firms-are-buying-up-ol...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121597

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31 Jul 2026 11:45:33 UTC

AI Companies Mass Shredding Rare Books [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c8pmp_OC2s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121930

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