Can you believe what's happening to our literary heritage? Apparently, tech giants are now acquiring priceless, one-of-a-kind rare books, not to preserve them, but to literally tear them apart. They're slicing off spines and scanning them for AI training, desperate for new data because their models have already exhausted everything online.

It’s wild, they even track books to a facility with a dinosaur logo! It's about destroying physical artifacts for data. They claim it's to "improve products," but at what cost?

We’re losing irreplaceable history just to feed algorithms and avoid "model collapse" from too much AI-generated text. Seriously, this feels like a dystopian sci-fi plot. #history #literature #technology https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazo… 🔗