Civil society groups push FTC to sue AI companies over book destruction

22/08/2026-18:47 22/08/2026-19:25 תרבות ורכילות Mashable דיווח

Earlier this month, mashable.com
on the disturbing trend of AI companies using and then destroying physical copies of books to train their agentic AI, in a practice so eerily reminiscent of book burning

AI companies destroy old books to train AI. Here's why.

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

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