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The question before AI firms today is whether they will treat rare and valuable books only as disposable training inputs or ...

A volunteer for Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to scan and upload books to the shadow library to help preserve human knowledge for the public. The move comes as more AI companies buy, scan, ...

Ever since a lawsuit in summer 2025 outed Anthropic for destroying millions of print books to train its AI models, book lovers have moved to defend some of the most precious collections from what ...

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Printed books are being cut apart and scanned to train large language models that are crucial in developing artificial intelligence. Court records from a lawsuit against Anthropic revealed millions of ...

Tech companies are using print books to build AI models, but critics decry the literary destruction and what some call ...

A bookseller estimates that the number of books being destroyed to train AI models is far higher than what’s being reported — somewhere in the tens of millions.

Accessing a plethora of information through portable devices is something much more practically beneficial than carrying books and documents around! Where books and documents give you excess weight ...