AI Companies Are Still Buying Up Old Books by the Pallet – Then Shredding Them

Source: Freerepublic.com· Gadget Review· July 28, 2026

Backed by a landmark fair-use ruling, AI labs are pulping hundreds of thousands of pre-2022 books to capture untainted human-authored text. A used bookseller gets an order for 400 volumes. History, botany, regional law, German-language economics. The subjects…

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