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The Federal Trade Commission in the USA is being urged to investigate AI companies for
buying rare books in
and then destroying them. Groups like the Consumer Federation of America have asked the FTC to look into
that AI companies are digitizing the books to train their large
models (LLMs). The
includes breaking the
of the rare works, scanning the pages, and then destroying them. Some destroyed books may be among the last
copies of the original texts. Critics argue that such books are
important and that it is not socially
to burn them. One critic said: "The rarer a book is, the more
we should preserve it."
