AI companies are quietly buying millions of printed books because the internet is becoming saturated with AI-generated content. To build better models, they need clean, human-written text. But many of those books are being permanently destroyed during the scanning process, raising questions about who controls humanity’s written knowledge.

Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/

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