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Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.

Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.
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We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Australia, secondhand booksellers fear someone is slicing apart and pulping the rarest […] This story continues at The Next Web

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