❌ Destroying the books
✔️ ...to fully digitize them
❌ ...and hoard the data in their systems
How do they manage to screw things twice in a row?
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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Why is this so badly written?
DAMNIT
The original article was on the australian news corp website, so it's probably not true and/or exaggerated but anyway
ha ha ai bad
If they were truely "rare" books, then the owner wouldn't have sold it to an AI company. People who collect rare books are usually very choosy about who they sell them to. Now I don't like them destroying books in general, but I suspect the word rare in this article is likely not what most people would actually call rare.
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Literally this is the Library of Alexandria