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-ol

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-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007769 [ok] 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-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044469 [dead] 27 Jul 2026 08:09:08 UTC AI companies are buying books and destroying them https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066514 [dead] 27 Jul 2026 12:32:12 UTC AI companies are shredding rare books https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/17 https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/17 Dec 2035 20:03:08 UTC485296565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738 [ok] 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-destroying-rare-books https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076129 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076129 [dead] 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-destroying-rare-books https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-de... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077029 [dead] 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-books https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-boo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079584 [dead] 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-up-all-the https://charliebecker.substack.com/p/is-an-ai-company-buying... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085321 [ok] 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-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9 https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-b... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095750 [ok] 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-intelligence/ai-companies-are-reportedly-shredding-millions-of-books-to-train-models-tech-giants-outsource-to-middlemen-to-secretly-buy-up-books-for-training-material https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099668 [ok] 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-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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121597 [ok] 31 Jul 2026 11:45:33 UTC AI Companies Mass Shredding Rare Books [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c8pmp_OC2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c8pmp_OC2s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121930 [ok]