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This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was 'spam or phishing.'

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6 Sept

Sharing this so we never forget the dystopian reality unfolding around us — rare and antique books, carrying centuries of knowledge and memory, are being erased from existence by AI COMPANIES.

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4 Aug

Rare Book Trade, Libraries and Archives alarmed by reports of massive number of rare and scarce books and ephemera purchased and destroyed to train AI. Reported in August issue of Rare Book Hub Monthly

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31 Jul

This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was 'spam or phishing.' Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI

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Other feeds and industry voices

26 Sept

Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities

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24 Apr

Open source project splits after contributor secretly vibe-coded with Claude and filed a trademark

<div class="md"><p>MeshCore is open-source mesh networking firmware - 38,000 active nodes, 100,000 app users, 85+ firmware releases. Started January 2025, all

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21 Aug

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

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27 Mar

The amount of compute currently running globally for crypto mining is staggering - has anyone thought seriously about redirecting it toward AI?

<div class="md"><p>I've been reading alot about AI compute stuff lately and something keeps bothering me.</p> <p>The total power used for cryptocoin mining around

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17 Aug

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

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10 Apr

Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories

<div class="md"><p>Thinking about the future and the past and with increasing talks about AI taking over human jobs, technology and societal needs and changes have

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