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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. Hedgie🤗

HedgieMarkets's tweet photo. 🦔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."

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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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モヒ夫 (MOHITECH)

@KazeKasukana

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Night City Scape59🏙️ #Cyberpunk2077 #VPCONTEXT #VPSAT #VirtualPhotography

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Robert Kearney

@Robkearney1981

almost 6 years ago

Millions have come to enjoy and love J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy but few know that the author privately told many that these works were based on a true history of Europe, one which had been hidden from ordinary people for thousands of years.

Robkearney1981's tweet photo. Millions have come to enjoy and love J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy but few know that the author privately told many that these works were based on a true history of Europe, one which had been hidden from ordinary people for thousands of years. https://t.co/kjmc8mha79

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Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico

ADAM

@adamemedia1

4 days ago

In case you were wondering why Trump took out anti-Israel Maduro from Venezuela.

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Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺

@cirnosad

3 days ago

Do you really think God the father would force you to live through this rotten fallen world as a "test"? The new testament makes it clear that he does not. So what's up with this world then, and what is our purpose within it? And who was the dude Moses was speaking to? 🤔

cirnosad's tweet photo. Do you really think God the father would force you to live through this rotten fallen world as a "test"? The new testament makes it clear that he does not.

So what's up with this world then, and what is our purpose within it? And who was the dude Moses was speaking to? 🤔

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Restoring Your Faith in Humanity

@HumanityChad

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Sometimes a small act of kindness can change an entire life... God bless you for saving this poor soul!

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Korobochka (コロボ) 🇦🇺✝️🇷🇺

@cirnosad

3 days ago

Good morning oomfies and prepare yourselves, things are about to get very rough in the regional war with Iran. My advice to Iran is the same as always: Preempt, don't wait. But only hours remain before a massive strike from the US aimed at decapitation and countervalue.

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