@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
This is literally Fahrenheit 451, which is a banned book by the way
2026-07-30 23:37:04
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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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Micho818 :
the way for them rewrite history
2026-07-30 21:37:38
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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 :
This should be illegal!
2026-07-31 00:03:40
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Mac :
erasing history to change it is cruel like wow
2026-07-30 22:00:12
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Majid Al-Booj :
destroying rare books for AI is wild
2026-07-30 17:33:54
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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 :
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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Brillionaire :
This is MAGA
2026-07-30 20:27:42
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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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Nolyn and Banjo :
What dystopian hell are we living in?
2026-07-31 00:25:27
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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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Woobang o :
Crimes against knowledge should be a thing
2026-07-30 22:05:31
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✨ :
this should be fucking ILLEGAL JESUS
2026-07-31 01:27:37
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Me :
Yeah, that’s a huge problem!
2026-07-31 05:44:44
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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 :
They’re trying to control what we can know
2026-07-30 21:05:53
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Danielle 🙈🙉 :
This is ✨Facism✨ anyone reading Fahrenheit 451???? We were warned
2026-07-30 22:26:09
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doncheo9 :
Why shred after?? That’s disgusting
2026-07-30 22:45:26
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RuffMichael :
Without books, history can be rewritten.
2026-07-30 22:38:09
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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 :
Everything about AI is repulsive… yet somehow this is even worse
2026-07-31 01:11:52
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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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Ray Brockman :
wake up people. This won't end well!
2026-07-30 18:13:28
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