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Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
(futurism.com)
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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only if you destroy the original i guess
(the real answer is that copyright is and always has been a tool for corporations to control the ownership of culture. what ai companies are doing isn’t fine in the eye of the state because it’s "transformative", it’s fine in the eyes of the state because they’re corporations selling their products)