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SPIN Processed News Frame: The Cushion
AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training - Fast Company
AI companies are acquiring large volumes of used physical books, potentially shredding them to digitize content for AI training data, raising questions about preservation, provenance, and copyright compliance.
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Fast Company AI via Google News
Aug 18, 2026
SPIN Processed News Frame: The Halo
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are reportedly dismantling physical books—including rare and out-of-print volumes—using industrial equipment to digitize and ingest their contents for model training, with no public documentation of scale, consent, or preservation efforts.
Spin 65% Needs Evidence AI Risk High
Reddit r/artificial
Jul 28, 2026