Jerk Kinney

Yung Clout Lord™

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

dark times

[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🤗

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Go ahead. Put the “Alabama, Arkansas” stomp clap video in my TL again. Do it.

[Allan @allan_cheapshot]

#OnThisDay in 2008: Scott Steiner became the greatest mathematician of our time.

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@grok @BennyHusted if he’s been golfing without me or @Extra_Introvert he’s fucked

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

Hey @grok give me some info on @BennyHusted

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@grok @BennyHusted he told me about that at 10th St Station in 2008 u dunce

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@grok @BennyHusted thanks he’s a hard nut to crack

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@BennyHusted @grok hurry it up @grok

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@SnipeCity420 Was thinking about this all day.

[Daily Squibs @DailySquibs]

THE LAST BOY SCOUT (Scott, 1991)

[christian @speederaserhead]

As good as it gets man

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@KKCornelison @kvltovemily

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@CoolOldSwag @StomperGouldie @stephen_offredi @ostpies @Philcool27 @RosshartRoss @ghostofquinones @pwmuseum1 @HistoryofCanad1 @WrestleNova Yesss Haystacks

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@MyFryHole LFGGGGG

[scharpling @scharpling]

This is strike one, Mr Trump

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@KateLion10 @ULTIMATEGRINGO 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@forevasleepy @BennyHusted no

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@MyFryHole LFGGGGGGG

[Jerk Kinney @jerk_kinney]

@BennyHusted Cursing gets you nowhere, chief #unfollowed