Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and destroying rare books
AI firms reportedly buy rare books, cropping, scanning, and discarding pages in wood chippers to train models on long-form text. Google patented a non-destructive scanning method in 2009, but book lovers fear the destructive practice is occurring on a grander scale than reported.
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