@cbsmornings: AI companies like Anthropic are buying and destroying millions of books — many of them rare, first-edition copies or hard-to-find, out-of-print editions — to feed chatbots, the Washington Post reported earlier this year. Some booksellers say they went from selling about 20 books per week in April to now selling hundreds. #ai #artificialintelligence #anthropic #BookTok

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lilwitchykorean
lilwitchykorean :
This is literally Fahrenheit 451, which is a banned book by the way
2026-07-30 23:37:04
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funkytown936
funkytown$ :
They are trying to gate keep the access of knowledge, it’s called Authoritarianism. Call it for what it is..
2026-07-31 00:31:16
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micho818darksacred
Micho818 :
the way for them rewrite history
2026-07-30 21:37:38
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linzinka
Linzinka :
It’s like the burning of the library of Alexandria. Who knows what we’ve lost forever
2026-07-30 21:58:54
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voiceofsoftpower
VoiceofSoftPower :
This should be illegal!
2026-07-31 00:03:40
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mac66368
Mac :
erasing history to change it is cruel like wow
2026-07-30 22:00:12
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majidinlondon
Majid Al-Booj :
destroying rare books for AI is wild
2026-07-30 17:33:54
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590744264w
590744264 :
This is such a bigger problem than people are making it out to be. Anything less than immediately amending the law to ban this, arresting all Anthropic leadership, and seizing all Anthropic assets to be returned to public libraries and museums is not enough.
2026-07-30 22:05:36
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ybcthanerd
ybcthanerd :
this is literally how you change history because all books they're scanning become digital and then they can change the words and change the meaning at will. and then there will be no physical copies to refer to
2026-07-31 07:07:39
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jbrillionaire
Brillionaire :
This is MAGA
2026-07-30 20:27:42
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2girls1bookpodcast
2girls1bookpodcast :
Destroying rare or out of print books can only mean they intend to attempt to alter how the message of the books are received by readers and researchers.
2026-07-30 21:50:49
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chronicvinyl
Nolyn and Banjo :
What dystopian hell are we living in?
2026-07-31 00:25:27
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vonntock48
Ms. V’s Beauty Education :
I Love books! I love the smell, I love hearing the pages turn, highlighting, underlining. I also love the smell of gasoline so maybe that’s just me being weird. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤭
2026-07-31 06:47:41
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woobang0
Woobang o :
Crimes against knowledge should be a thing
2026-07-30 22:05:31
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damnittiffany
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this should be fucking ILLEGAL JESUS
2026-07-31 01:27:37
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ronaldclampitt175
Me :
Yeah, that’s a huge problem!
2026-07-31 05:44:44
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peace_tranquility_tacos
peace.tranquility.tacos🇺🇸🆘 :
If the books are destroyed and all that’s left is the digital, it can be changed or altered and we wouldn’t know. That’s why they destroy the books
2026-07-30 22:49:08
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roguedoughnut
RogueDoughnut :
They’re trying to control what we can know
2026-07-30 21:05:53
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danisraustin
Danielle 🙈🙉 :
This is ✨Facism✨ anyone reading Fahrenheit 451???? We were warned
2026-07-30 22:26:09
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doncheo9
doncheo9 :
Why shred after?? That’s disgusting
2026-07-30 22:45:26
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7833xi
RuffMichael :
Without books, history can be rewritten.
2026-07-30 22:38:09
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id.bristol
ElectroWitch :
And this is how they will control the information deleting it and changing it because there’s no hardcopy to be found the most nefarious thing ever
2026-07-30 23:55:53
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olive_._._
Olive :
Everything about AI is repulsive… yet somehow this is even worse
2026-07-31 01:11:52
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ryanrosscuriel
Ryan Ross Curiel :
Another type of censorship; once the physical is destroyed the digital version can be manipulated and no one would have a physical book to compare it to.
2026-07-30 23:16:14
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raybrockman
Ray Brockman :
wake up people. This won't end well!
2026-07-30 18:13:28
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