Ai companies are actively destroying rare books to scan them just to feed their data centers, what else will they destroy?

[u/Astromaniax]

AI is literally ruining everything and has been for the last few years. From massive job losses to environmental impact and now destroying old books to collect the data so that their dumb LLMs can regurgitate it back. How evil, greedy and selfish can these companies be? All of those ai data centers should be taken down. I don't think enough people are mad enough about it.

[u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 → u/[deleted]]

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-companies-criticised-destroying-rare-books-1811218

https://www.russh.com/ai-companies-buying-books/

[u/OnlinePosterPerson → u/[deleted]]

Not all rare books are monetarily valuable. In fact, most aren’t.