4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (217+ words) We’ve been writing about AI companies buying rare books and destroying them in order to keep feeding more information to the AI chatbots. We learned a new word for it too, destructive scanning. At the The Guardian, last month, Kathryn…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (809+ words) An AirTag-tracked shipment reached Amazon’s LAS8 facility, where VGT3 reportedly cuts bindings for scanning. Here’s what is known and unknown. The broader story also includes a separate reported order of 5,000 books described by bookseller Tomás Kenny. That order is not the same…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (329+ words) The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race has a new victim — second-hand books. Over the past summer, reports have emerged of AI developers around the world purchasing vast quantities of used books. Once acquired, these volumes are destructively scanned: Their bindings are…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (559+ words) | Hindustan Times Hindustan Times The Artificial Intelligence (AI) race has a new victim — second-hand books Over the past summer, reports have emerged of AI developers around the world purchasing vast quantities of used books Once acquired, these volumes are…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (492+ words) Google’s AI Overview told searchers The Viridian Bookshop was closed for good, even though the store was very much open. by Abbey Weitzenkamp | Sep. 4, 2026 | 1:52 PM Through the hand-painted door of The Viridian Bookshop in Downtown Willoughby, readers, Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (245+ words) The Korea Daily AI training data — Why Used Bookstores Are Facing Mystery Bulk Orders The Secret Behind Mysterious Bulk Book Orders As tech companies race to secure high-quality AI training data, secondhand bookstores across Canada and globally are facing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (620+ words) A Southern California used bookstore owner has turned away more than $5,000 in book orders in recent months after becoming concerned that the books could be purchased by intermediaries for artificial intelligence companies, scanned for AI training, and then destroyed. “We…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (381+ words) AI companies are scooping up books. The real tragedy of the burning of the Library of Alexandria? That all those books couldn’t be used to train LLMs before they went up in flames. Driving the news: A number of Canadian…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1206+ words) Used booksellers in Canada are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up their old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashed. Their concern stems from a U.S. copyright…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1246+ words) Used booksellers in Canada are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up their old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashed. Their concern stems from a U.S. copyright…...