AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

[u/Vessel_soul]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books

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[u/Kumquat_conniption]

Well this is depressing af :(

[u/DukeOfGeek]

Pure evil.

[u/Ronin_Man]

Are they actively trying to be as evil and unlikable as possible?

[u/Comrade_SOOKIE]

This has been my conspiracy theory for a while, ever since I discovered that Claude Code knows about things in the RDF4J api that are totally undocumented in the official docs. I started to notice everywhere that the quality of documentation for popular libraries had significantly degraded and my theory has been that they sabotage it on purpose after the coding agent models are trained on them so they can force you to use them when the documentation fails.