Books

AI is quietly turning forgotten books into valuable training data, raising unsettling questions about who owns human knowledge once it leaves the page. A bookseller in Houston has spent the summer watching his stock disappear in batches. At Becker’s Books, Charlie Becker told The Atlantic that 95 of ... Read full article.

Benjamin Franklin, censorship, and 1,500 volumes of 17th-century sexuality? The Library Company of Philadelphia just got a spicy addition, forcing us to rethink what belongs on our shelves and how history's rebels shaped It’s a tale as old as books themselves: what we deem acceptable for public ... Read full article.