The Book Burners: A Dark Side to the AI Revolution The recent surge in used book sales in the UK is a welcome development for book lovers and sellers, but beneath the surface lies a more sinister reality.
Companies like Anthropic are scouring the globe for rare and out of print books to use as training data for their language models, destroying physical copies in the process.
At first glance, the destruction of old books might seem like a minor concern, especially when compared to the scale and scope of the digital revolution.