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🦔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.

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@mattlanza I saw one the other day!

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@mattlanza @NASAArtemis Tears in our house!

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@mattlanza @HoustonDash @HoustonDynamo Oh! lol. It’s literally the jersey. Thank you.

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@FlyersNation @mattlanza @CrossingBroad I mean, in a workplace that’s harassment so I get it.

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@mattlanza Heaven forbid!

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@Sadie_NC A tank

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@mattlanza Downright bizarre! Scientists who don’t science?

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@RepMTG Didn’t you kill your own dog?

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@MrPitbull07 @FBIDirectorKash Yes. We shook our heads and said “see it is a problem!” But we are not looking to completely ban guns no matter what you tell yourselves.

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@SpaceCityWX y’all are the goto weather information for so many of us in Houston. With the firings at the federal level do you feel you can be as effective in the coming hurricane season? I’m going be honest I’m frightened.

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@mattlanza We did 5$

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@mattlanza It’s absolutely wild. I didn’t even know that could be done.

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@mattlanza I totally trust your judgment without any facts at all!

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@KareemRon33 @FreckledLiberty @AOC How do you figure?

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@AOC He’s actually spitting

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@chassiskat @SpeedSportLife @WileyPostKHOU Obviously I meant before dawn.

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@chassiskat @SpeedSportLife @WileyPostKHOU Yes they do but it’s before dark when my kid goes to school and half the walking route is on a thoroughfare with sloped ditches, no shoulder or sidewalk.