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"caught" also implies they've been hiding it... It's been out in the open how they scan books to train AI for a while now.
I don't think most people realize that the most efficient process for scanning books involves disassembling them.
So of course they're upset to hear the books are disposed of afterwards.
It has been almost a trope that every time the discussion of them buying up the used market and cutting them up to scan, some apologist comes along and says that these books are mass produced garbage and not rare.