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AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] nullspace@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They commit mass amounts of copyright infringement before burning the books.

[โ€“] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 45 minutes ago

Good heavens! I'm starting to think there's something rotten in this "steal people's work, regurgitate it back at them at great environmental cost and if they don't like it, force it down their throats at every opportunity" industry