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Booksellers Allege AI Firms Destroy Rare Books
Rare book dealers suspect AI companies buy physical volumes only to shred them after scanning. This destructive process accelerates the ingestion of high-quality, long-form text for model training. While unconfirmed by specific firms, the practice targets fragile archives to bypass slow manual digitization. Practitioners should expect increased scrutiny over training data provenance and physical archive ethics.