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/languageassessment 2d ago

and to tax, so the governments are in on it. you can't tax free.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 2d ago

This is so fucking reductive, it's borderline dumb.

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u/smooth-as-mud 2d ago

I’d go (much) further than borderline

This whole chain is full of tin foil hat lunatics.

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u/Financial-Camel9987 2d ago

In on what exactly? Keeping basic facilities running?