GigaQian
Region: US
Thursday 30 July 2026 00:13:02 GMT
20709
1961
155
131
Music
Download
Comments
Just a Geek :
they are by definition destroying PRIVATE books to create a PRIVATE library
2026-07-30 12:27:49
69
Mishmish :
I do not like where this is going
2026-07-30 02:04:09
71
Gurl Use Your Voice :
Imagine having bought all those books and still churning out ai slop
2026-07-31 03:03:57
0
Gjergj :
Destroying “poor rich dad dad” is valid to destroy!
2026-07-31 04:42:04
1
JOSEPH WILLIAM BAKER® :
sounds kind of like the Vatican.. private library. removing knowledge from circulation.
2026-07-30 01:20:28
82
yayme :
OK, I’m confused. Are they buying books that only have one copy in existence and then destroying them and keeping it for themselves?
2026-07-30 23:10:51
5
yosemite.sunrise :
Absolutely repugnant if true… horrible inflection point for human Civilization 😳
2026-07-30 00:28:03
11
uuu :
Also if they drain the market of books they block new competitors
2026-07-30 00:27:29
12
Dan Dan :
While I agree that it’s an ugly practice, I have issue with your question at the end. Are they public books if they’re purchasing all of them, and if so, what makes it a public book? There are tons of books held in private collections that will likely never be seen by the public. Doing it en masse makes it bad?
2026-07-30 01:28:24
5
womanymous :
That judge need to call Anthropocene CEO and tell them to STOP DESTROYING THE PUBKIC RECORD FOR THEIR OWN PROFIT!
2026-07-31 01:54:09
0
Lorretta Jordan :
Had to repost this. Not okay to destroy books
2026-07-30 14:21:21
3
aliz :
Talking about threat to humanity
2026-07-30 04:27:51
12
John :
Did libraries stop existing? Don’t these books exist in a way to reprint these? I’m not sure what the issue is.
2026-07-30 01:25:56
1
p_musings :
Usage rights?
2026-07-30 07:54:08
0
☽⊹ Robert ⛤ Paulson ⊹☾ :
Admittedly, I have not fact-checked this. From what I had heard, it was the acquisition of RARE, one-of-a-kind books that were being destroyed that raised my hackles.
2026-07-30 04:04:11
2
djsifhuehee833j :
every single claim in this video about ai companies bulk buying and destroying millions of rare antique books is entirely false and fear mongering misinformation. if those books were actually ultra rare or useful they would already be digitized and preserved on archive.org or the library of congress long ago. text datasets like books3 literally had over 190,000 titles scraped off the internet in bulk because half of them are out of print obscure stuff no one has bought in 30 years. people just slap the word rare on forgotten bargain bin books to create fake drama. public libraries literally discard and weed out over 100 million physical books every single year just to clear shelf space and nobody bats an eye, but as soon as an AI company uses digital copies to train a model suddenly everyone starts crying about impending doom for paper 😂😂😂
2026-07-30 08:03:11
3
dimplemonkey :
🤔 Fahrenheit 451, anyone? 🤔📖 🔥
2026-07-31 03:14:37
0
womanymous :
It’s infuriating that authors have to pay that company for legitimacy with an ISBN and then they SOLD OUT their authors and had the books destroyed! So DISRESPECTFUL!
2026-07-31 01:50:01
0
King Makle :
My problem is people are framing it like they’re destroying millions of books so that everyday people can no longer access them. Which is absurd.
2026-07-30 14:35:05
2
Sir Zeno :
salute
2026-07-30 10:13:59
1
voiceoftheconcrete :
makes perfect sense give me a single reason why they shouldn’t do this, I’m not seeing that in this video. Seems like you’re missing the vision still.
2026-07-30 05:49:26
2
Measurement :
Your point at the end sounds like exactly what they are trying to do, and these ai models will just get more and more expensive once they try to desperately recapture the money they burned on it
2026-07-30 12:00:56
4
Ms. Mountcastle :
When they start closing public libraries it’s done.
2026-07-30 12:10:26
3
Mr.E.77 :
Public books? I believe they were privately owned
2026-07-30 01:44:37
1
Gurl Use Your Voice :
They could have just gotten the pdfs of the old books so yeah it was definitely destroying physical products so you can never know what’s truth
2026-07-31 03:02:12
1
To see more videos from user @gigaqian, please go to the Tikwm
homepage.
