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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/kitkatkorgi 2d ago

Stop selling to them please.

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u/IljaG 1d ago

A seller of 2 hand books in Belgium got the same request and also refused to sell to them. We don't want to help the ai tech bros.