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The Federal Trade Commission is being urged to investigate AI companies.
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Allegedly buying rare books in bulk and then destroying them.
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AI companies are digitizing the books to train their large language models.
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Some destroyed books may be the last surviving copies of the original texts.
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The rarer a book is the more carefully we should preserve it.
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The bulk buying of books is creating a dilemma for stores.
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They are receiving large orders for some rather valuable items.
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The WSJ reported that rare and obscure book sales have suddenly surged.
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Some books are apparently being bought not to be read but to be digitized.
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Spending a fortune on millions of books that are being used to help train AI.
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