AI labs are destroying books to train models
Archivists and historians are alarmed because low-circulation academic journals, historic local records, and antique texts are being destroyed to train AI Models.
Tech giants have actively outsourced the “destructive scanning” operation to brokers who buy print volumes anonymously by the pallet, feed them into high-speed slicing machines, and turn them into pulp them after scanning.
They are looking for books printed before 2022 that pre-date AI generated content.
The practice is booming due to an escalating data crisis and a legal blueprint that shields it from copyright law.
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