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A trade
in the US is being asked to investigate AI companies for
destroying rare books. Some consumer
claim that AI companies are digitizing old books to train their
language models (LLMs). The
includes breaking the
of the rare books, scanning the pages, and then destroying them. Some books may be among the last
copies of the original
. Critics say such books are historically important and that it is
to burn them. One critic said: "The rarer a book is, the more
we should preserve it."