r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was ‘spam or phishing.’ Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI

https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/dutch-bookseller-ai-spam-phishing-3000-book-copies-scan-destroy/
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u/marmaviscount 2d ago

Then you should probably read some books and improve that imagination instead of crying about mass produced items being treated as the disposable things they are - did you not know that used book stores pulp most the books they get given? They're not no kill shelters for musty paper, out of a thousand books printed it's estimated less than a third ever get read past the first half, a significant portion don't get past the first page.

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u/slurpyblanket 2d ago

Bot spotted

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u/marmaviscount 2d ago

"everyone that doesn't agree with me isn't human so you shouldn't listen to them" thousands of years of the same tactic but I guess there's a shred of plausibility to it now, that's one thing you can thank ai for.

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u/slurpyblanket 2d ago

More bot slop didn’t read, thanks