Evidence of unfair use: AI books squeeze human authors out of the market

Books being cleaned at the Preservation Academy Leipzig in Germany DPA Picture Alliance/Reuters A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. Of all the things Anthropic has done, this one probably shocks regular people the most. The AI giant bought millions of used books, cut off their spines, scanned the contents to train its models, and then destroyed the originals. Most people hear that and think it's…