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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[3DAnimatorSpotlight @3DAnimationSL]

Korra fans and haters sincerely believing the obvious misdirection set up of all time is so baffling

"Korra isnt the reason the world ended, she's the reason there's anything left of it at all" is so obviously going to be the big twist that it almost doesn't even qualify as one

[ゅぅぅっ/yuuutsu @u_u2_12]

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[Yiva🇺🇦 *Commissions Open* @Yivavaa]

#WutheringWaves #Lucilla #Hiyuki

[swordheists @swordheists]

FOR THE 3 LYCHI ENJOYERS OUT THERE I present an AU for you

#WutheringWaves #Lynae #Chisa #LyChi

[Like a Dirty French Novel @TVU1969]

You should essentially never be saying stuff like "Goyslop" "The raped" "foid/moid" and "phenotype" in my opinion, regardless of your beliefs

[Baob @baoblo]

when you're a good girl that likes getting dommed

[有村泰志 @15424578268]

単位を変える魔法

[Zy0x @Zy0x_]

who's ready to pretend to hate the tsaritsa's design just to inevitably fall in love with her after the archon quest and pretend that you liked her all along ??

[teddy | kkenpilled @henrylethm]

i think the most revealing thing about european vs american discourse is how americans saying anything about how our country exists is percieved as bragging

[LonelyGoomba @LonelyGoomba]

"The _____ fanbase sucks" applies to almost every fanbase because ultimately people generally just suck. It has nothing to do with the IP in question.

[Nomi @nomianims]

Evanescia bit more than what she could chew...

[LucHD @_luchd]

rescuing woke Aria from TOPS' goon crypt

[2cy @tucy2zn]

@NicholasPas5 “Oi gooey”

[Your OG 🐩 @LRNROSE]

yall really be arguing w racists on here 🤣 they will say “explain to me why you arent a monkey” and yall be legit explaining 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[alexander the pretty good @vaudevillehook]

Just got exposed for my role in the coverup of a major scandal and had to resign in disgrace. My legacy and political future are completely tarnished. I’ll forever be remembered as a crook. Pineapple with cottage cheese and warm milk.

[Two Tone @TwoToneShoes]

it's amazing how power scaling obsessed people do everything in their power to try to make it seem like power scaling is the same as narrative consistency. No, a writer writing a story with conflict is not them "powerscaling" the characters in the conflict.

[GearArts⚙️WE ARE BACK FN 🔥🔥🔥 @GearArts_]

Made some bullshit #ZenlessZoneZero