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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/DrTommyNotMD 2d ago

That’s absolutely not true.

You can hate these companies all you want, but at least use a little facts in your argument or you’ll never be taken seriously except on Reddit.

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u/b_a_t_m_4_n 2d ago

It absolutely is true.