AI companies keep destroying old books. Heres why.

Anthropic and other AI companies have been caught slicing up old books to create training data for their LLMs.

Last week, the internet raged as social-media posts and news articles accused AI companies of “destroying the world’s books”—including “millions of rare” ones—by chopping off their spines to scan them more easily, and discarding them afterward. One article said the news was “sparking concerns that the last remaining co