AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale; Futurism, July 25, 2026

 Frank Landymore , Futurism; AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

"To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone."

Cultural barbarism: How AI companies are destroying the world’s books; The Telegraph, July 30, 2026

Chris Stokel-Walker , The Telegraph; Cultural barbarism: How AI companies are destroying the world’s books

In its attempt to boost AI’s power, Silicon Valley is buying millions of rare editions, scanning them and then shredding the originals