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Thursday, July 30, 2026

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale; Futurism, July 25, 2026

  Frank Landymore , Futurism; AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale


"To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone."

Posted by Kip Currier, PhD, JD at 7:50 PM No comments:
Labels: AI LLMs, AI tech companies, AI training data, antique books, booksellers, copyright law, destroying rare books, first sale doctrine, out of print books
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Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information.Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2007); Juris Doctor (JD), University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Member of American Bar Association (ABA), ABA IP Law Section, ABA Science & Technology Section; Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T); Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
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