AI Companies destroying rare books to train their AIs

[Koen G]

non-fiction titles published after 1970 with ISBN numbers.

I just feel like this kind of book would eventually end up being discarded anyway. I have turned in many myself to the second hand store, where they were drowning in that kind of stuff. Unless it's a first edition or something, in which case it will be in collectors' hands. Or maybe I am not imaginative enough to picture the kind of mass-print book published after 1970 that would suffer from having one or two of its copies destroyed.

This is not to say that the project is a noble cause, but "rare books" made it sound like they were burning through books of hours and incunabula.