AI companies are destroying rare books for profit

https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-FI-Template-42-720x540.jpg" width="720" />As a result of a legal loophole, AI companies have taken to sourcing rare books which they are subsequently scanning and destroying.

And as people have highlighted, it could mean many texts are being lost to us forever: So AI labs are buying old books by the pallet, slicing them apart, scanning the pages, and […]

By https://www.thecanary.co/author/willem-moore/">Willem Moore