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Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.
We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In…
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