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AI companies destroying rare books
AI companies have been exposed for crushing and destroying rare books to extract training data. The practice has faced massive criticism from libraries, book collectors, and cultural heritage specialists who view it as an irreversible loss of cultural heritage.
WHY IT MATTERS
This challenges the legality and ethics of training data collection for AI, and will likely intensify debate over copyright, fair use, and cultural preservation obligations in the AI era.
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