Rare Books

Amazon Is Destroying Rare Books for AI. The Law Calls It ‘Fair Use’.

📅 August 21, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Amazon can buy and destroy rare physical books to train AI under fair use, while the Internet Archive faces ruinous litigation for digital lending. Copyright law protects reproductions, not artifacts, rewarding extraction over preservation. We are losing our cultural heritage to feed a machine.

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Stop Believing AI is Just Scraping the Web. It’s Destroying Our History.

📅 August 2, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

The AI industry’s hunger for training data isn’t just scraping the web—it’s physically destroying rare, centuries-old books. This horrific supply chain reality means the very act of teaching AI is erasing the physical evidence of human culture, leaving us unable to verify the machines we are building.

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