AI firms buying and destroying millions of rare books for training data after court declares it fair use

AI firms destroying millions of rare books for training data, raising alarms over cultural heritage   – NaturalNews.com
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AI firms destroying millions of rare books for training data, raising alarms over cultural heritage – NaturalNews.com

AI companies are purchasing millions of physical books from secondhand markets, destroying them after scanning for training data. Federal Judge William Alsup ruled Anthropic’s destructive scanning of legally purchased books qualifies as “