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AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC

Source: Biztoc.com· theregister.com· August 21, 2026
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC

AI companies are buying loads of physical books, hoovering up the texts for model training, and then physically destroying the originals. A group of 18 advocacy organizations on Friday asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the book butchering a…

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